| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "A(dot)M(dot)" <agentm(at)themactionfaction(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [GENERAL] initdb fails to allocate shared memory |
| Date: | 2010-08-25 19:28:34 |
| Message-ID: | 23817.1282764514@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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I wrote:
> it appears from your report that OS X is also using ENOMEM when SHMALL
> is exceeded, which is not all that surprising because actually none of
> the spec-defined error codes cover SHMALL exhaustion.
A look into
http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/xnu-1504.7.4/bsd/kern/sysv_shm.c
confirms this:
if ((user_ssize_t)(shm_committed + btoc(total_size)) > shminfo.shmall)
return ENOMEM;
So this behavior is probably common among BSDen.
regards, tom lane
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