Re: Autovacuum Launcher Process Exception

elliott(at)cpi(dot)com wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have been running PostgreSQL for many months and just recently started
> getting this exception upon start up. Does anyone know what the issue
> might be?
>
> LOG: database system is ready to accept connections
> LOG: autovacuum launcher started
> LOG: autovacuum launcher process <PID 7060> was terminated by exception
> 0xC0000006
> HINT: See C include file "ntstatus.h" for a description of the
> hexadecimal value.

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Programming/System/Windows__Programming/Q_20267274.html
(Scroll way down to see the answers to the question)

Do you have the binaries on a network filesystem which is sporadically
failing?

> LOG: could not open temporary statistics file "global/pgstat.tmp": No
> such file or directory
> LOG: all server processes terminated; reinitializing
> PANIC: could not open control file "global/pg_control": No such file or
> directory

So the files in the data directory are suddenly gone?

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