Re: postgresql 8.4 semaphores ...

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 11:46:03AM +1000, Malcolm Herbert wrote:
> I'm using -current version 5.99.15 and having trouble starting postgresql 
> version 8.4 from the pre-coompiled pkgsrc collection for 5.0.1_2009Q3.  The 
> start message reads as follows:
> 
> [...]
> |creating template1 database in /data/pgsql/data/base/1 ... FATAL:  could not 
> create semaphores: No space left on device

I've already seen this. Postgress doesn't destroy IPCs it created when it
exits. ipcs will show you theses, and you can destroy them with ipcrm

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