Yeah, that was what I was afraid of. I've had a UNIX admin working on it for an extended period of time to no avail.
Okay, well, thank you for confirming my fears :-)
-----Original Message-----
From: Alvaro Herrera [mailto:alvherre@commandprompt.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 09:53
To: Lasher, Glenn
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Difficulty with make check
Lasher, Glenn wrote:
> On the QA zone or Production servers, however the same command (adjusted for the number of processors) fails at 'make
check'thus:
>
> ---8<-cut----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ./pg_regress --temp-install=./tmp_check --top-builddir=../../.. --srcdir=/usr/us
> ers/postgres/build/postgresql-8.3.7/src/test/regress --temp-port=55432 --schedul
> e=./parallel_schedule --multibyte=SQL_ASCII --load-language=plpgsql
> ============== creating temporary installation ==============
> ============== initializing database system ==============
> ============== starting postmaster ==============
> Killed
> Killed
This seems an environment problem -- process limits set too low or
something like that. It's not related to Postgres itself; it's the
kernel or some layer in between that's disallowing Postgres from running
normally.
--
Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support
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