Steffen Schmidt <Schmidt@EMBL.de> writes:
> The solution I found was increasing the kernel kern.sysv.shmmax flag
> (i.e. editing the /etc/rc file and rebooting). But this is not a nice
> solution as my older postgres 7.3.4 daemon now doesn't start because of
> the same issue :-( - and I want to keep this daemon for a while
You need to increase shmmax enough to accommodate both. 20meg or so
ought to do it.
regards, tom lane