Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> I'm disappointed :-( I thought this thread (without reading it too
> deeply) was about fixing the problem that backends sometimes fail to
> connect to shmem, on a system that's been running for a while.
Nobody knows yet what's wrong there or how to fix it. This thread
is about Andrew's complaint here:
http://archives.postgresql.org//pgsql-hackers/2009-05/msg00003.php
which seems relatively straightforward to fix, or at least reduce
the probability of trouble to the vanishing point.
regards, tom lane