"Jim C. Nasby" <jim@nasby.net> writes:
> Tapir appears to be failing because make check wants more than 10
> connections for testing. What I don't understand is why it's being
> limited to 10.
Your SysV IPC limits are too small --- apparently it's not so much
shared memory as semaphores that are the problem. See the
FreeBSD-specific notes in
http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/kernel-resources.html
regards, tom lane