Michael Coffman <coffman@musc.edu> writes:
> Whenever I start postmaster w/ greater than 64 buffers, I get the following
> message:
> Starting postgresql service: 010307.17:10:34.877 [1631] IpcMemoryCreate:
> shmget failed (Invalid argument) key=5432001, size=2703360, permission=600
Perhaps there already is a shm segment lying around that needs to be
removed? See "ipcs" and "ipcrm".
7.1 will remove or work around a conflicting old shm segment, but I'm
not sure that 7.0 will.
regards, tom lane