mischa_sandberg@xxxxxxxxx (Mischa Sandberg) writes: >Unfortunately, with multiple jails running PG servers and (due to app >limitations) all servers having same PGPORT, you get the situation that >when jail#2 (,jail#3,...) server comes up, it: >- detects that there is a shm seg with ipc key 5432001 >- checks whether the associated postmaster process exists (with kill -0) >- overwrites the segment created and being used by jail #1 Easiest fix: change the UID of the user running the postmaster (ie. pgsql) so that each runs as a distinct UID (instead of distinct PGPORT) ... been doing this since moving to FreeBSD 6.x ... no patches required ... -- ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@xxxxxxx MSN . scrappy@xxxxxxx Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly