"Uwe Bartels" <uwe.bartels@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > When trying to to set shared_buffers greater then 3,5 GB on 32 GB x86 > machine with solaris 10 I running in this error: > FATAL: requested shared memory size overflows size_t > The solaris x86 ist 64-bit and the compiled postgres is as well 64-bit. Either it's not really a 64-bit build, or you made an error in your math. What did you try to set shared_buffers to, exactly? Did you increase any other parameters at the same time? regards, tom lane
