Re: possible bug...

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
To: SriKumar Kareti <SriKumar(dot)Kareti(at)spanlink(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: possible bug...
Date: 2005-09-22 14:40:13
Message-ID: 20050922144013.GB30584@surnet.cl
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On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 01:49:35PM -0500, SriKumar Kareti wrote:

Hi,

> creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/1 ... ok
> creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_tblspc ... ok
> selecting default max_connections ... 10
> selecting default shared_buffers ... 50
> creating configuration files ... ok
> creating template1 database in /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/1 ... child
> process exited with exit code 1
> initdb: removing contents of data directory "/usr/local/pgsql/data"

Hmm, it seems like you are out of shared memory on this machine; maybe
the kernel limits are too low. Try setting SHMMAX higher; you can do
that using sysctl and/or /etc/sysctl.conf. Please see the documentation
on "kernel limits".

The error message is not really friendly though.

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