Christopher Barbee <christophbarbee@sbcglobal.net> writes:
> I am trying to get my PowerBook to host a postgres
> server.
> I seem to be h aving troubles with the
> shared-buffers. I have 1G of ram so don't know why
> this is a problem...
OS X has a pretty small default SHMMAX setting. Read the installation
documentation about configuring kernel settings ...
regards, tom lane