>>Power off on a dev machine ;)
>
>
> Does the dev machine run more than one postmaster?
No.
I've occasionally
> seen similar issues when restarting a clutch of dev postmasters ---
> the kernel may assign a shmem id to one of them that belonged to another
> one in the previous cycle, and if you already started that other one
> then the second gets confused. 8.0 and up have a test that should deal
> correctly with this; what version did you see failing exactly?
This is on my personal dev machine and I am running 8.1Dev.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
>
> regards, tom lane
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