Thanks, Tom, I messed it up myself, see my other post. Am 04.06.2012 um 01:16 schrieb Tom Lane: > Alexander Reichstadt <lxr@xxxxxxx> writes: >>> So sure enough that process claimed to might be starting does not end up being a process. Where do I look for what's actually going on? > > In the postmaster log ... > >>> This is the log output: >>> 04.06.12 00:26:29,792 com.edb.launchd.postgresql-9.1: If the request size is already small, it's possible that it is less than your kernel's SHMMIN parameter, in which case raising the request size or reconfiguring SHMMIN is called for. > > You seem to have trimmed off the useful part of this error message, but > I'm going to take a wild guess that what is happening is (a) you have > another postmaster running someplace, and (b) it is chewing up all the > allowed space for shared memory. If you have not mucked with OSX's > default shared-memory limits then there is only enough room to run one > postmaster at a time. The trouble with this theory is that the other > postmaster probably ought to be visible in ps output; I'm not sure why > it might not be. Anyway, try running "ipcs" to see if any SysV shared > memory or semaphores are active. If there are any, it's a pretty good > tip that there's a Postgres running somewhere. > > regards, tom lane > > -- > Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
