Re: PostgreSQL's share_buffer calculation using shmget() versus kernel.shmmax - Mailing list pgsql-admin

On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Mel Llaguno <mllaguno@coverity.com> wrote:
> Having to guess this value is far from ideal; what I'd like is the formula used by postgresql that generates the
shmget()value displayed in the pgctl.log. 
>

There is no easy way or at least none that I'm aware of, to get the
exact value of shared memory needed for Postgres. If you have access
to the source code, you can look at CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores()
function in src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c to see what all goes in
determining the size for shmget()

Thanks,
Pavan

--
Pavan Deolasee
http://www.linkedin.com/in/pavandeolasee