I've seen this error on systems that don't realize they have Apple
Remote Desktop installed which has its own copy of Postgres - you may
be running a copy and not know it.
On Dec 28, 2006, at 11:04 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Scott Ribe <scott_ribe@killerbytes.com> writes:
>> Finally, the error message you're getting doesn't indicate that
>> postgres is
>> actually requesting much memory. I suspect that you may have
>> something else
>> running on your system which is using SysV shared memory.
>
> Recent versions of OS X have ipcs, so you could try "sudo ipcs -m" to
> find out about that.
>
> regards, tom lane
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