Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
> Somebody else mentioned, and IIRC I talked to Dave about this before,
> that this could be because the address is no longer available. The
> reason for this could be some kind of race condition in the backends
> starting - the address is available when the postmaster starts and thus
> it's used, but when a regular backend starts, the memory is used for
> something else.
How is it no longer available, when the new backend is a brand new
process? The "race condition" bit seems even sillier --- if there
are multiple backends starting, they're each an independent process.
regards, tom lane