On Dec 16, 2009, at 3:16 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Were you running a live PG instance on the box at the same time? OS X's > default SHMMAX is small enough that PG will eat all of it by default, > meaning that attempting to start a second postmaster on the box will > fail. Yeah - I was. I stopped my live instance, reran 'make check', and make check passed. Thanks for the pointers. Tim Hart Software Consultant 615-713-9956 :cell tjhart :AIM thart@xxxxxx -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general