Re: Cannot reattach to shared memory / Windows

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Howard Cole <howardnews(at)selestial(dot)com>
Cc: "'PgSql General'" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Cannot reattach to shared memory / Windows
Date: 2009-04-27 16:22:06
Message-ID: 200904271622.n3RGMBG24795@momjian.us
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Howard Cole wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am running postgres 8.3 on a W2K8 server and appear to be getting lots
> of "cannot reattach to shared memory" errors in the log. I used to get
> these before on a windows 2K3 server but I was under the impression that
> these were caused by ESET NOD32 antivirus software. But I am not running
> any antivirus on the machine in question.
>
> I am also seeing this on development Vista machines and W2k3 servers
> with and without the antivirus. Is anyone else experiencing these errors?

It is on our TODO list as a known bug:

Diagnose problem where shared memory can sometimes not be attached by
postmaster children

* FATAL: could not reattach to shared memory (Win32)
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2007-08/msg01377.php

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