"Thom Brown" <thombrown@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > The script is actually one which came with the Gentoo package. > ... > Okay, so I've manually tried starting the server now and told it to > output any log to /tmp. This is telling me that the request for a > shared memory segment is higher than my kernel's SHMMAX parameter. My > bad, I've put my settings in incorrectly, and as it states in the > config file, changes to that setting require a restart. I've reset > all values to back to how they were and it is running again. Yeah, SHMMAX overrun is a pretty common problem. You really need to complain to whoever maintains the Gentoo package that their start script is so utterly, noisily unhelpful in the presence of a postmaster startup issue. 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
