Hi Doug,
I have a very similar configuration to yours, but I was able to install PostgreSQL successfully through dumb luck; that is, I simply ignored the advice about the shared memory just to see what would happen. The installation apparently is smart enough to fix one's environment automatically now, and I received this nice message telling me to re-boot and re-run the installer. I did that and everything works just fine. You may simply want to delete /etc/sysctl.conf and try again.
Good Luck,
Dennis Clark
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Doug Graham
<duggram@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm trying to install Postresql on my Mac Book Pro which has 4GB ram and runs OS X 10.5.6. Postgres won't install because it says I don't have more than 32MB of shared memory. So as they tell you in their readme I created a file /etc/sysctl.conf with these lines:
kern.sysv.shmmax=16777216
kern.sysv.shmall=16777216
kern.sysv.shmmin=1
kern.sysv.shmmni=4096
kern.sysv.shmseg=8
Reboot multiple times. Here's what shared memory I have running now:
DougMBP:~ duggram$ sysctl -a | grep shm
kern.exec: unknown type returned
kern.sysv.shmall: 16777216
kern.sysv.shmseg: 8
kern.sysv.shmmni: 4096
kern.sysv.shmmin: 1
kern.sysv.shmmax: 4194304
Which is more than Postgres says is required. Any suggestions on what I need to do to get Postgres to install?
Any advice appreciated, Doug
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