Any suggestions as to why I can not initialize the database (see error
below) are greatly appreciated.

I am new to PostgreSQL. I am using W2K, Cygwin, and within Cygwin
PostgreSQL 7.4.1-2.

Olaf


omeding@santorini ~
$ initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "omeding".
This user must also own the server process.

The database cluster will be initialized with locale C.

creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data... ok
creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/base... ok
creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/global... ok
creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_xlog... ok
creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_clog... ok
selecting default max_connections... 10
selecting default shared_buffers... 50
creating configuration files... ok
creating template1 database in /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/1... FATAL: could
not create shared memory segment: Function not implemented
DETAIL: Failed system call was shmget(key=1, size=1081344, 03600).

initdb: failed
initdb: removing data directory "/usr/local/pgsql/data"

omeding@santorini ~
$

"Olaf Meding" <OlafMeding (AT) noSpam (DOT) compuserve.com> writes:
You need to enable the cygipc code to run PG under Cygwin. This is
explained somewhere in the docs, but not being a Cygwin user, I'm
not sure exactly where...

regards, tom lane

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Olaf,

Check out the following readme for assistance with this problem:

http://www.tishler.net/jason/softwar...l-7.4.1.README

You need to make sure that you are using the right version of cygipc, that
it is running, and that you have set the file permissions correctly.

Regards,
George

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From: "Olaf Meding" <OlafMeding (AT) noSpam (DOT) compuserve.com>
To: <pgsql-novice (AT) postgresql (DOT) org>
Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 11:44 AM
Subject: [NOVICE] Get error during initdb



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