Re: setting pg memory consumption on windows

Kasia Tuszynska wrote on 14.09.2009 22:15:
> Hello Postgres Admins,
>
>
>
> I am having a bit of trouble setting postgres memory parameters on a
> windows machine. I figured out the parameters based on postgres
> documentation as well as the whack a mole slide deck, but the postgres
> process will not start. Event log keeps indicating the following reason
> for the postgres process : *FATAL: could not create shared memory segment*
>
> I can not find any documentation specific to windows…
>
You are not mentioning which PG version you are running. But with 8.4.1 a bug that lead to "could not reattach to
sharedmemory" errors was fixed. I don't know if this is the same what you are seeing. 

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-8-4-1.html

Thomas