Thread: Postgresql Installation on IBM aix 5.2
Good day
I am currently working on a huge project, where the recommended database is Postgresql. Unfortunately I just can't get it working on aix, and I need some help please. I tried both v 8.1.0 and 8.0.4, but I keep on hitting the same problem.
The gmake step succeeds by ending with "All of PostgreSQL successfully made. Ready to install". However, gmake check fails with "initdb failed" when it tries to initialize the database.
The log message at .src/test/regress/log ends with "child process was terminated by signal 11".
We are using a 64bit IBM model p550 with aix 5.2 ML-07, with the IBM linux toolkit for bison, flex, gcc, python etc.
Can anyone perhaps please help me ?
Thanks a lot,
Herman Gildenhuys
AIX storage administrator
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Herman.Gildenhuys@postoffice.co.za
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Herman Gildenhuys wrote: > The gmake step succeeds by ending with "All of PostgreSQL successfully > made. Ready to install". However, gmake check fails with "initdb failed" > when it tries to initialize the database. > > The log message at .src/test/regress/log ends with "child process was > terminated by signal 11". You may want to look into the ipcs and ipcrm commands if you haven't already. When the child processes segfaulted, they had likely grabbed some shared memory that hasn't yet been freed. AIX with all its memory locked up as shared memory due to too many processes not cleaning up after themselves is not fun. > We are using a 64bit IBM model p550 with aix 5.2 ML-07, with the IBM > linux toolkit for bison, flex, gcc, python etc. Try building postgres without readline (pass configure "--without-readline"). libreadline.a exports more symbols than it should, which has been causing problems with AIX 5.3. -- Seneca Cunningham scunning@ca.afilias.info