Re: Regression Tests

On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Paul Juliano wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've installed PostgreSQL 7.0.2 on Solaris following the INSTALL file
> that comes with the source.
>
> When I do:
>
> make runtest
>
> it gives out the following error message in regress.out:
>
> postmaster must already be running for the regression tests to succeed.
> The time zone is set to PST8PDT for these tests by the client frontend.
> Please report any apparent problems to ports(at)postgresql(dot)org
> See regress/README for more information.
>
> =============== dropping old regression database... =================
> DROP DATABASE
> =============== creating new regression database... =================
> CREATE DATABASE
> =============== installing languages... =================
> installing PL/pgSQL .. createlang: missing required argument PGLIB
> directory
> (This is the directory where the interpreter for the procedural
> language is stored. Traditionally, these are installed in whatever
> 'lib' directory was specified at configure time.)
> failed
Do you have a PGLIB environment variable set?
You may need one so that createlang can find the procedural
language information. It's probably /usr/local/pgsql/lib
if you didn't change the locations.

I thought this information was in the INSTALL, but it's not there any
more in any case.

> Also, when I do:
>
> make runcheck
>
> the following message is in the postmaster.log
>
> IpcSemaphoreCreate: semget failed (No space left on device)
> key=65432015, num=16, permission=600
> This type of error is usually caused by an improper
> shared memory or System V IPC semaphore configuration.
> For more information, see the FAQ and platform-specific
> FAQ's in the source directory pgsql/doc or on our
> web site at http://www.postgresql.org.
> FATAL 1: InitProcGlobal: IpcSemaphoreCreate failed

Sounds like you don't have a large enough shared memory block
configured on the machine. I don't know enough about solaris
to help here, but I believe people have posted shared memory
configurations on either -general or -hackers in the past.
You might be able to find more info in the archives.