Re: BUG #4892: postmaster died and didn't restart

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Rikard Pavelic" <rikard(dot)pavelic(at)zg(dot)htnet(dot)hr>
Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BUG #4892: postmaster died and didn't restart
Date: 2009-06-28 23:48:38
Message-ID: 17202.1246232918@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Rikard Pavelic" <rikard(dot)pavelic(at)zg(dot)htnet(dot)hr> writes:
> %t FATAL: could not create shared memory segment: 1455
> %t DETAIL: Failed system call was CreateFileMapping(size=37044224,
> name=Global/PostgreSQL:C:/Program Files/PostgreSQL/8.4/data).

I know little about Windows, but according to Google code 1455 is
"ERROR_COMMITMENT_LIMIT: The paging file is too small for this operation
to complete". Which seems to be an out-of-memory kind of problem.
Perhaps you've got shared_buffers set to an unreasonably high value
for your machine?

regards, tom lane

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