Re: FATAL: could not reattach to shared memory (Win32)

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Terry Yapt <yapt(at)technovell(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: FATAL: could not reattach to shared memory (Win32)
Date: 2007-08-23 14:30:35
Message-ID: 20070823143035.GP26038@alvh.no-ip.org
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Terry Yapt wrote:

> I am looking for system errors and nothing is there. But I have a lot of
> messages on system APP errors. The error is the same every ten seconds or
> so.
>
> This is the main error:
> * FATAL: could not reattach to shared memory (key=5432001, addr=01D80000):
> Invalid argument

Please run "ipcs" on a command line window and paste the results.

I see a minor problem in that code: we are invoking two system calls
(shmget and shmat) but the log does not say which one failed. However
in this case it seems only shmget could be returning EINVAL.

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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