Re: Running Postgresql 7.4.2 on Windows 2000 with Cygwin ! - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Corey Edwards
Subject Re: Running Postgresql 7.4.2 on Windows 2000 with Cygwin !
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Msg-id 1081266464.4900.11.camel@harvey
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In response to Running Postgresql 7.4.2 on Windows 2000 with Cygwin !  (JC Jan Christensen <jan.christensen@riva-systems.dk>)
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On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 02:03, JC Jan Christensen wrote:
>  I have made a shell-script that contains the
>  following lines:
>
>     initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
>     postmaster -i -n -d 2 -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
>
>  When I run this shell-script I get the following
>  error-message from initdb :
>
>   FATAL: could not create shared memory
>          segment: Function not implemented
>   DETAIL: Failed system call was
>           shmget(key=1, size=1081344, 03600)
>   initdb: failed
>
>  What is wrong here ???????????
>  How can I solve this problem ????????????

You need to run the ipc-daemon in order to initdb or start the database.
Please see the FAQ.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/text/FAQ_MSWIN

Also consider using the cygwin postgresql package. Detailed instructions
for installing from the package can be found here:

http://www.tishler.net/jason/software/postgresql/postgresql-7.4.README


Corey



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