Tom Lane wrote:
>Jeffrey Melloy <jmelloy@visualdistortion.org> writes:
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>>I attempted to install 8.0 RC 2 alongside 7.4.5 on my OS X box, but
>>initdb failed with an error about not enough shared memory.
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>Don't forget that both shmmax and shmall may need attention ... and,
>just to confuse matters, they are measured in different units.
>
> regards, tom lane
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>
I didn't realize that they were different units. Setting shmmax to
268435456 and shmall to 65536 works fine.
Thanks,
Jeff