PostgreSQL in FreeBSD jails

[Alexander Rusinov]

>>>
>>> Just add the following line to your /etc/rc.conf
>>>
>>> jail_sysvipc_allow="YES"
>>> and ipc configuration will be shared with the jails
>>>  
>>>
>> I have IPC enabled for jails already. So unfortunately this is not a 
>> solution.
>>
>> Is anybody here who do run several jailed PostgreSQL servers?
>>
> AFAIR PostgreSQL generates the shared memory identifier based on the 
> port it is runing on. It is possible to run two instances of 
> PostgreSQL on different ports, so it should work if they are in 
> seperate jails.

Actually, I'm using unix sockets for those servers so I never thought 
about changing the port number. But now I tried and ... that helped! 
Thank you!

I guess this is a workaround but not a solution though.