Re: FATAL: could not reattach to shared memory (Win32)

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Terry Yapt wrote:
>
>> This is the main error:
>> * FATAL:  could not reattach to shared memory (key=5432001, addr=01D80000):
>> Invalid argument
>>
>> It is always followed by this another system-app error:
>> * LOG:  unrecognized win32 error code: 487
>
> FWIW,
> http://help.netop.com/support/errorcodes/win32_error_codes.htm
>
> says
> 487     Attempt to access invalid address.     ERROR_INVALID_ADDRESS
>
> This problem has been reported before, for example in
>
> http://bbs.chinaunix.net/thread-973003-1-1.html
> (not that I can read it very well)
>
> and
>
> http://lists.pgfoundry.org/pipermail/brasil-usuarios/20061127/003150.html
>
> No resolution seems to have been found.

8.3 will have a new way to deal with shared mem on win32. It's the same
underlying tech, but we're no longer trying to squeeze it into an
emulation of sysv. With a bit of luck, that'll help :-)

//Magnus