Shelby Cain wrote: >> ----- Original Message ---- From: Magnus Hagander >> <magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: Alvaro Herrera >> <alvherre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Terry Yapt <yapt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; >> pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 >> 3:43:32 PM Subject: Re: FATAL: could not reattach to >> shared memory (Win32) >> >> >> 8.3 will have a new way to deal with shared mem on win32. It's the >> same underlying tech, but we're no longer trying to squeeze it into >> an emulation of sysv. With a bit of luck, that'll help :-) >> >> //Magnus >> > > Wild guess on my part... could that error be the result of an attempt > to map shared memory into a process at a fixed location that just > happens to already be occupied by a dll that Windows had decided to > relocate? Not that wild a guess, really :-) I'd say it's a very good possibility - but I have no idea why it'd do that, since all backends load the same DLLs at that stage. //Magnus ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster