Re: BUG #5680: Failure to start: too many private dirs demanded

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Alexey Parshin <alexeyp(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-bugs <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: BUG #5680: Failure to start: too many private dirs demanded
Date: 2010-09-28 07:04:34
Message-ID: 18000.1285657474@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> Excerpts from Alexey Parshin's message of lun sep 27 16:56:01 -0400 2010:
>> PostgreSQL (fresh install) fails to start.
>> The only message in the log file says:
>> FATAL: too many private dirs demanded

> Weird. A result of some gentoo patch perhaps? Please try

Is it possible that gentoo has more than 32 levels of subdirectory
underneath /usr/share/timezone (or whatever the local equivalent is)?

regards, tom lane

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