Michael Best <mbest@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Set your memory requirement too high in postgresql.conf, reload instead > of restarting the database, it silently fails sometime later? Yeah, wouldn't surprise me, since the reload is going to ignore any changes related to resizing shared memory. I think that 8.2 might warn you that it was ignoring the un-applyable changes, but the warnings would only go to the postmaster log, where they're easily missed :-( regards, tom lane
