Tag Archives: os x

sysctl

Occasionally my shared memory segment settings in my /etc/rc file aren’t applied correctly during startup and I get the following error when I try to start Postgres: FATAL: could not create shared memory segment: Cannot allocate memory DETAIL: Failed system call was shmget(key=5432001, size=33554432, 03600). HINT: This error usually means that PostgreSQL’s request for a [...]