| From: | Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Gavin Kistner <phrogz(at)mac(dot)com>, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Fresh build on OS X not working (memory) |
| Date: | 2010-05-02 02:28:00 |
| Message-ID: | z2ndcc563d11005011928kf9373bfcu1c1a80e040671fbe@mail.gmail.com |
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On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 11:42 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Gavin Kistner <phrogz(at)mac(dot)com> writes:
>> Mac OS X 10.6.3
>> Built and installed PG 8.4.3 from source
>> Trying to start the server, I get "could not create shared memory segment: Invalid argument".
>
> OSX is *notoriously* unfriendly about configuring shm parameters.
> You look at it sidewise, it doesn't work, and generally won't tell
> you why it's refusing to talk to you. We document a few of the known
> constraints in our manual, but I'm sure there are more.
The fact that they seem to change the needed magical incantations
every point release doesn't help things either.
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