On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 11:31 PM, Kyle Fox <kyle....@gmail.com> wrote:
> I used the installer to install Postgres 9.0 on my Mac, and now every 10 > seconds a dialog message flashes and immediately disappears, and STEALS > FOCUS. The focus-stealing sounds like a problem coming from the EDB installer you said you used, and you'll have to complain to those folks about it. > My computer is completely unusable because of the installer. How do I fix > this? I would like to uninstall postgres entirely. > > Here's the output from the Console.app: > > 11-08-15 9:24:04 PM Firewall[63] postgres is listening from > 0.0.0.0:5432 > proto=6 > 11-08-15 9:24:04 PM com.edb.launchd.postgresql-8.4[426] 2011-08-15 > 21:24:04 > MDT FATAL: could not create shared memory segment: Cannot allocate memory > 11-08-15 9:24:04 PM com.edb.launchd.postgresql-8.4[426] 2011-08-15 > 21:24:04 > MDT DETAIL: Failed system call was shmget(key=5432001, size=32587776, > 03600). From the logs you posted, it sounds like you simply need to adjust the shared memory segments documented here: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/kernel-resources.html See the "MacOS X" section on that page for OS X specific instructions. Josh -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs
