Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 11:42 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> OSX is *notoriously* unfriendly about configuring shm parameters. >> You look at it sidewise, it doesn't work, and generally won't tell >> you why it's refusing to talk to you. We document a few of the known >> constraints in our manual, but I'm sure there are more. > The fact that they seem to change the needed magical incantations > every point release doesn't help things either. Actually, it appears they've finally reached a point of reasonable sanity in 10.6. It's still true that they reject non-page-multiple SHMMAX, instead of rounding to the next page boundary like everybody else does; but the old kluges whereby you could only set the values by waving a dead chicken in a specific fashion during boot seem to be mostly gone. I wasn't aware of this myself, not having experimented recently. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
