Re: could not create shared memory segment in Windows XP

Have you got Cygwin installed? I had similar problems due to Cygwin being
eariler in my PATH than Pg.

Regards,

Ben

"Andrus" <eetasoft(at)online(dot)ee> wrote in message
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> I'm unable to create database cluster in Windows 2000 server.
>
> initdb returns error
>
> FATAL: could not create shared memory segment: No such file or directory
>
> any idea how to create cluster in Windows 2000 ?
>
>
> Task MAnager shows physical memory:
>
> Total: 392664
> Available: 81860
> System Cache: 157xxx
>
>
> If available physical memory is too low, how to increate it (decrease
> system cache) ?
>
> Andrus.
>
>
> C:\pgsql>bin\initdb -E=UTF8 -d -D data
> Running in debug mode.
> VERSION=8.1.3
> PGDATA=data
> share_path=C:/pgsql/share
> PGPATH=C:/pgsql/bin
> POSTGRES_SUPERUSERNAME=postgres
> POSTGRES_BKI=C:/pgsql/share/postgres.bki
> POSTGRES_DESCR=C:/pgsql/share/postgres.description
> POSTGRESQL_CONF_SAMPLE=C:/pgsql/share/postgresql.conf.sample
> PG_HBA_SAMPLE=C:/pgsql/share/pg_hba.conf.sample
> PG_IDENT_SAMPLE=C:/pgsql/share/pg_ident.conf.sample
> The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user
> "postgres".
> This user must also own the server process.
>
> The database cluster will be initialized with locale
> Estonian_Estonia.1257.
>
> creating directory data ... ok
> creating directory data/global ... ok
> creating directory data/pg_xlog ... ok
> creating directory data/pg_xlog/archive_status ... ok
> creating directory data/pg_clog ... ok
> creating directory data/pg_subtrans ... ok
> creating directory data/pg_twophase ... ok
> creating directory data/pg_multixact/members ... ok
> creating directory data/pg_multixact/offsets ... ok
> creating directory data/base ... ok
> creating directory data/base/1 ... ok
> creating directory data/pg_tblspc ... ok
> selecting default max_connections ... 10
> selecting default shared_buffers ... 50
> creating configuration files ... ok
> creating template1 database in data/base/1 ... DEBUG: TZ
> "Europe/Helsinki"
> matc
> hes Windows timezone "FLE Daylight Time"
> DEBUG: invoking IpcMemoryCreate(size=1327104)
> DEBUG: mapped win32 error code 161 to 2
> FATAL: could not create shared memory segment: No such file or directory
> DETAIL: Failed system call was shmget(key=1, size=1327104, 03600).
> DEBUG: proc_exit(1)
> DEBUG: shmem_exit(1)
> DEBUG: exit(1)
> child process was terminated by signal 1
> initdb: removing data directory "data"
>
>
>