"Anne M. Hammond" <hammond@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > However, when the server SHMMAX is smaller than the size required > by the defaults for shared_buffers and max_connections, I have > not been able to find a way (other than the above), to tell > initdb to use a nondefault values. Well, initdb is just a shell script in 7.4, so it's not that hard to edit it to try even-smaller values for max_connections and/or shared_buffers. I stand by my comment that performance is going to suck though, and you may even run into "out of buffers" failures. regards, tom lane
