[postgis-users] Help urgently needed - geomfromEWKT() / PostGIS onMac OS X

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net [mailto:postgis-users-
> bounces at postgis.refractions.net] On Behalf Of Christian Heine
> Sent: 09 February 2006 12:59
> To: PostGIS Users Discussion
> Subject: [postgis-users] Help urgently needed - geomfromEWKT() / PostGIS
> onMac OS X
> 
> Dear list,
> I've been battling with major problems installing PostGIS-1.1.1 over
> the recent days and I am not sure what do anymore. Maybe it's the
> blindness of having to fix this asap with pressing last weeks of a
> PhD in the back, maybe some technical stuff. Definitely I need some
> external comments on my attempts from you experts.

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> Furthermore, I am getting the "could not create shared memory
> segment" Error message, which I didn't get at all when I compiled
> postgresql earlier on. What is worrying me, is that the it is
> actually the very same setup, but things don't work anymore.
> I would be very very grateful for any pointers/fixes or fixes or any
> how-to's.
> 
> Thanks a lot in advance,
> Christian


Hi Christian,

First of all, we'd need a lot more information about how you are installing
PostgreSQL/PostGIS in order to be able to help. In particular, we'd need
more information about the commands you used after ./configure (did you use
make or make install?) how you executed initdb, and the commands you used to
start and stop the PostgreSQL server (so we can see that you are trying to
connect to the version you have just compiled). Plus the *exact* command you
are using to try and insert your EWKT geometry rather a cut down version
would be a lot more useful.

I'd be inclined to go for option 1) in your attempt to get everything
working, as newer software tends to have less bugs, and I seem to remember
several Xcode related fixes have been added recently.

Without having more information as to all the commands you have typed, I'd
say it sounds as if you've either mixed up different versions of
PostgreSQL/PostGIS or your database cluster is somehow corrupted.


Kind regards,

Mark.

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