[ADMIN] Creating Multiple Instance

2011-12-13 Thread Selva manickaraja
Hi All, We are planning to create a 2nd instance of postgres db in the same server. The reason is simple. After we added another application, the number of WAL(s) created is too much. So we want to separate the db by moving it out to another instance of postgres in the same machine. We want to stu

Re: [ADMIN] Creating Multiple Instance

2011-12-13 Thread Thomas Markus
Hi, thats possible. Dont forget so set another port in your postgresql.conf Thomas Am 13.12.2011 09:23, schrieb Selva manickaraja: Hi All, We are planning to create a 2nd instance of postgres db in the same server. The reason is simple. After we added another application, the number of WAL(

Re: [ADMIN] Creating Multiple Instance

2011-12-13 Thread Tom Lane
Thomas Markus writes: > thats possible. Dont forget so set another port in your postgresql.conf I think actually the reason pg_ctl is complaining is that it doesn't know how to read postgresql.conf, so it's unaware that the second server is supposed to be on 5433. (IIRC, this is fixed in 9.1, bu

Re: [ADMIN] Creating Multiple Instance

2011-12-13 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 1:23 AM, Selva manickaraja wrote: > Hi All, > > We are planning to create a 2nd instance of postgres db in the same server. > The reason is simple. After we added another application, the number of You don't mention which OS you're running, but any debian based Linux distr

Re: [ADMIN] Number of connections still limited on Windows 64-bit?

2011-12-13 Thread Jan-Peter . Seifert
Hello Andreas, thank you very much for the link. Original-Nachricht > Datum: Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:04:30 +0100 > Von: lst_ho...@kwsoft.de > Zitat von Jan-Peter Seifert : > > I wonder whether the number of connections is still limited on > > Windows 64-bit if you also use a 64-b

[ADMIN] FATAL: shmat(id=4096103) failed: Cannot allocate memory

2011-12-13 Thread CS DBA
Hi All; I just installed Fedora 16, I was running fedora 14. I installed Postgresql from source and set SHMMAX to 2198066816 I set postgres to use 2GB for shared_buffers and I get this when I try to start: FATAL: shmat(id=4096103) failed: Cannot allocate memory The only real difference fro

Re: [ADMIN] FATAL: shmat(id=4096103) failed: Cannot allocate memory

2011-12-13 Thread Tom Lane
CS DBA writes: > I set postgres to use 2GB for shared_buffers and I get this when I try > to start: > FATAL: shmat(id=4096103) failed: Cannot allocate memory > The only real difference from Fedora 14 is that on Fedora 16 I'm using > the PAE kernel That's not really surprising in a 32-bit envir