Re: Oracle and PostgreSQL servers incompatibility - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Oracle and PostgreSQL servers incompatibility
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Msg-id 20354.1068821589@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Oracle and PostgreSQL servers incompatibility  ("Jouneau Luc" <Luc.Jouneau@diamant.jouy.inra.fr>)
Responses Re: Oracle and PostgreSQL servers incompatibility  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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"Jouneau Luc" <Luc.Jouneau@jouy.inra.fr> writes:
> We plan to install on a same Solaris server an Oracle8i and a PostgreSQL
> 7.3.4 database.
> During our impact tests, we encountered a situation where no more semaphore
> was available for Oracle server (while we where bulk loading on postgreSQL
> using copy statement. There was only one PG connection while there were many
> on Oracle server).
> I quote that our kernel configuration (semaphore and shared memory
> parameters) had been previously correctly positionned as required in Oracle
> and postgreSQL documentation.

Obviously not.  I suspect you forgot to add up the semaphore
requirements of each package ...

            regards, tom lane

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