On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Sofer, Yuval <Yuval_Sofer@bmc.com> wrote:
> Hi
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> Postgres crashes with -
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> PG "FATAL: could not reattach to shared memory (key=5432001,
> addr=02100000): Invalid argument.
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> The version is 8.2.4, the platform is win32
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> Does someone know the reason/workaround ?
This was fixed in 8.3.8 and 8.4.1. I'm not entirely sure why it didn't
get backpatched to 8.2 - it was mentioned in the discussion about the
patch, but I don't see any reason for not back patching it stated.
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2009-07/thrd5.php#00782
Even if it were fixed, you would need a much newer build than 8.2.4.
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