Kim Kohen <kim@webguide.com.au> writes:
> As I was sending the last email to you it struck me as strange that I could
> be running a binary copy but another would fail to initialise. Simple test -
> I shut down the other server and tried again - initdb ran fine and I now
> have the compiled version up and running.
Yeah ... the default shmem limits on OS X are too small to allow two
postmasters to run at once :-(. See the PG admin guide for details
on how to increase the limits.
regards, tom lane