I shortened the error msg to fit it into the subject box.

I just completed a fresh install (not upgrade) of MDK 9.2 onto a 1.0 GHz
Athlon with 512 MB of RAM. The PostgreSQL 7.3.4 RPMs were installed when I
did the MDK 9.2 install, which also created the postgres account.

The 'short version' for installation worked perfectly up to the following
step:

initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data

which I have used for several years, failed on me for the first time, giving
the error msg shown in the Subject box.

I am not going to recompile MDK's kernel to raise the maximum number of
semaphores (SEMMNS), and the 'max_connections' parameter is currently at 1
and can't go lower, unless it is indexed starting at zero.

I was unable to post this to the Mandrake Bugzilla page because it is down.

What is the possiblity that I would encounter this error if I were to remove
the 7.3.4 RPMs and install the 7.4 tar files manually?

TIA!
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sheesh! Some days I should stay in bed.
Ignore this thread. The problem is operator error.
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jerry wrote:

I'll answer my own question: NO!

gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/home/jerry/postgresql-7.4/contrib/spi'
/bin/sh ./pg_regress --temp-install --top-builddir=../../..
--schedule=./parallel_schedule --multibyte=SQL_ASCII
============== creating temporary installation ==============
============== initializing database system ==============

pg_regress: initdb failed
Examine ./log/initdb.log for the reason.

The initdb.log gave the exact same reason for failure, except for:
"reduce PostgreSQL's consumption of semaphores by reducing its
max_connections parameter (currently 10)."

I know from the error msg in the RPM installation that even with a
'max_connections" = 1 the failure occurres. It seems that the standard
MDK 9.2 kernel (2.4.22-10mdk) is not compatible with PostgreSQL 7.3.4 or
7.4. ???

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