shmget again ...

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POSTGRESQL BUG REPORT TEMPLATE
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Your name : Jerome ALET
Your email address : alet(at)unice(dot)fr

System Configuration
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Architecture (example: Intel Pentium) : Sun SparcStation 20, 64
Mb RAM

Operating System (example: Linux 2.0.26 ELF) : RedHat Linux 4.2 +
updates, kernel 2.0.35 and libc 5.3.12

PostgreSQL version (example: PostgreSQL-6.5.2): PostgreSQL-6.5.2

Compiler used (example: gcc 2.8.0) : gcc 2.7.2.1

Please enter a FULL description of your problem:
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The already mentioned shmget problem when launching postmaster:

IpcMemoryCreate: shmget failed (Invalid argument) key=5432001, size=1073152, permission=600
FATAL 1: ShmemCreate: cannot create region

Please describe a way to repeat the problem. Please try to provide a
concise reproducible example, if at all possible:
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simply launch postmaster, it dies immediately with the above error

If you know how this problem might be fixed, list the solution below:
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I don't know a solution but I can say that I use successfully postgresql
since the 6.3, and I wanted to upgrade my 6.4.2 which worked very fine to
the 6.5.2 and I'd better have stayed in bed this morning...

I havent yet tried to reduce the default shared memory usage with the -B
option. do you think this could significantly reduce the speed of the
database engine ?

thanks.

Jerome ALET - alet(at)unice(dot)fr - http://cortex.unice.fr/~jerome
Faculte de Medecine de Nice - http://noe.unice.fr - Tel: 04 93 37 76 30
28 Avenue de Valombrose - 06107 NICE Cedex 2 - FRANCE