Have you got Cygwin installed? I had similar problems due to Cygwin being eariler in my PATH than Pg.
Regards, Ben "Andrus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I'm unable to create database cluster in Windows 2000 server. > > initdb returns error > > FATAL: could not create shared memory segment: No such file or directory > > any idea how to create cluster in Windows 2000 ? > > > Task MAnager shows physical memory: > > Total: 392664 > Available: 81860 > System Cache: 157xxx > > > If available physical memory is too low, how to increate it (decrease > system cache) ? > > Andrus. > > > C:\pgsql>bin\initdb -E=UTF8 -d -D data > Running in debug mode. > VERSION=8.1.3 > PGDATA=data > share_path=C:/pgsql/share > PGPATH=C:/pgsql/bin > POSTGRES_SUPERUSERNAME=postgres > POSTGRES_BKI=C:/pgsql/share/postgres.bki > POSTGRES_DESCR=C:/pgsql/share/postgres.description > POSTGRESQL_CONF_SAMPLE=C:/pgsql/share/postgresql.conf.sample > PG_HBA_SAMPLE=C:/pgsql/share/pg_hba.conf.sample > PG_IDENT_SAMPLE=C:/pgsql/share/pg_ident.conf.sample > The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user > "postgres". > This user must also own the server process. > > The database cluster will be initialized with locale > Estonian_Estonia.1257. > > creating directory data ... ok > creating directory data/global ... ok > creating directory data/pg_xlog ... ok > creating directory data/pg_xlog/archive_status ... ok > creating directory data/pg_clog ... ok > creating directory data/pg_subtrans ... ok > creating directory data/pg_twophase ... ok > creating directory data/pg_multixact/members ... ok > creating directory data/pg_multixact/offsets ... ok > creating directory data/base ... ok > creating directory data/base/1 ... ok > creating directory data/pg_tblspc ... ok > selecting default max_connections ... 10 > selecting default shared_buffers ... 50 > creating configuration files ... ok > creating template1 database in data/base/1 ... DEBUG: TZ > "Europe/Helsinki" > matc > hes Windows timezone "FLE Daylight Time" > DEBUG: invoking IpcMemoryCreate(size=1327104) > DEBUG: mapped win32 error code 161 to 2 > FATAL: could not create shared memory segment: No such file or directory > DETAIL: Failed system call was shmget(key=1, size=1327104, 03600). > DEBUG: proc_exit(1) > DEBUG: shmem_exit(1) > DEBUG: exit(1) > child process was terminated by signal 1 > initdb: removing data directory "data" > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org