Re: OS X shared memory problems 8.0rc3

Timothy Perrigo <tperrigo@wernervas.com> writes:
> On Jan 2, 2005, at 12:58 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I think you probably are trying to run two postmasters at once.  You
>> really need to increase the OS X memory limits, instead.

> No, I just ran pg_ctl status to check, and here was the output:
> pg_ctl: neither postmaster nor postgres running

Proves only that you weren't running another postmaster in the same data
directory.  Try "ps auxww | grep post"

            regards, tom lane