Re: FATAL: could not reattach to shared memory (Win32)

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Terry Yapt <yapt(at)technovell(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: FATAL: could not reattach to shared memory (Win32)
Date: 2007-08-23 20:43:32
Message-ID: 46CDF174.1090407@hagander.net
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Terry Yapt wrote:
>
>> This is the main error:
>> * FATAL: could not reattach to shared memory (key=5432001, addr=01D80000):
>> Invalid argument
>>
>> It is always followed by this another system-app error:
>> * LOG: unrecognized win32 error code: 487
>
> FWIW,
> http://help.netop.com/support/errorcodes/win32_error_codes.htm
>
> says
> 487 Attempt to access invalid address. ERROR_INVALID_ADDRESS
>
> This problem has been reported before, for example in
>
> http://bbs.chinaunix.net/thread-973003-1-1.html
> (not that I can read it very well)
>
> and
>
> http://lists.pgfoundry.org/pipermail/brasil-usuarios/20061127/003150.html
>
> No resolution seems to have been found.

8.3 will have a new way to deal with shared mem on win32. It's the same
underlying tech, but we're no longer trying to squeeze it into an
emulation of sysv. With a bit of luck, that'll help :-)

//Magnus

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