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Re: 7.4 on Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther): initdb shmget fails - Mailing list pgsql-ports

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: 7.4 on Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther): initdb shmget fails
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Msg-id 1562.1070056891@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to 7.4 on Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther): initdb shmget fails  (Steffen Schmidt <Schmidt@EMBL.de>)
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Steffen Schmidt <Schmidt@EMBL.de> writes:
> The solution I found was increasing the kernel kern.sysv.shmmax flag
> (i.e. editing the /etc/rc file and rebooting). But this is not a nice
> solution as my older postgres 7.3.4 daemon now doesn't start because of
> the same issue :-( - and I want to keep this daemon for a while

You need to increase shmmax enough to accommodate both.  20meg or so
ought to do it.

            regards, tom lane

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