Re: RemoveIPC problem

From: scott ribe <scott_ribe(at)elevated-dev(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Postgresql General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: RemoveIPC problem
Date: 2017-09-01 03:10:20
Message-ID: 12ED99C4-6965-4C06-BDDD-E83106DD3835@elevated-dev.com
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Yeah, I was kind of thinking that PG detects the semaphore not existing, bails immediately, restarts clean, thus no problem. I just wanted to hear from people, like you, that know way more than I do about the internals.

> On Aug 31, 2017, at 9:08 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> scott ribe <scott_ribe(at)elevated-dev(dot)com> writes:
>> Thanks to a typo, I did not turn off systemd's RemoveIPC, and had many many pg restarts before I figured out the problem.
>
>> Should my data be OK? Or do I need to dump & reload?
>
> I don't know of any reason to think that that poses a data corruption
> risk. (But I've been wrong before.)
>
> regards, tom lane

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