Re: initdb problem... - Mailing list pgsql-ports

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: initdb problem...
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.30.0104130051000.1148-100000@peter.localdomain
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In response to Re: initdb problem...  (Jason Tishler <Jason.Tishler@dothill.com>)
Responses Re: initdb problem...  (Jason Tishler <Jason.Tishler@dothill.com>)
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Jason Tishler writes:

> I think that I know what your problem is.  Did you forget to start the
> ipc-daemon?  This must be running whenever postmaster is running.
> Otherwise, initdb, postmaster, etc. will hang.

Isn't there some way this could behave more intelligently?  I would think
that if ipc-daemon isn't running then there is no SysV IPC and shmget() or
semget() should fail with some error.  Or it could die horribly, but not
hang.

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Peter Eisentraut      peter_e@gmx.net       http://yi.org/peter-e/


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