We normally don't go into that much detail in the FAQ unless someone is
seeing that problem case a lot.
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Richard Pais wrote:
>
> Just an explanation in the FAQ that the ipc-daemon is not running won't suffice. Because in my case I had ipc-daemon
(version1.11) running and it still hung (Jason's patch reported the IpcMemoryCreate error). Only when I downgraded to
version1.09 (office) and upgraded to 1.13 (home) did initdb succeed. So I'd suggest also covering this scenario.
> Thanks,
> Richard
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> wrote:
> At least that is an FAQ item.
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Jason Tishler wrote:
> > Tom,
> > Peter,
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 03:05:25PM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote:
> > > On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 02:43:01PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > > > If you can detect that cygipc is not running, then ENOSYS seems the
> > > > best choice for reporting that. (ENOSPC would be misleading too.)
> > >
> > > Thanks for your feedback. I will take this to the Cygwin list and see
> > > what happens.
> >
> > I happy to report that the above has been accomplished:
> >
> > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2002-11/msg00025.html
> >
> > Hopefully, the Cygwin initdb and postmaster hang posts will be a thing
> > of the past. Unfortunately, they probably will be replaced by questions
> > like:
> >
> > Why does initdb fail with "IpcMemoryCreate: shmget(...) failed:
> > Function not implemented?"
> >
> > Jason
> >
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