From: German Becker <german(dot)becker(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: archive falling behind
> Actually this seems like a very strange filesystem /hw problem. The
> wal segments keep "changing" even after I stoped the database and
> noone is supposly accesing it:
I've seen this before. It was bad RAM. I bet it's a hardware problem
for you as well... either bad RAM or a flaky disk.
In my case, I found it out because I got syntax errors in the
PostgreSQL logs: SELGCT was not a valid keyword. It turns out
that the flaky RAM was flipping bit 1 occasionally, so it would
randomly add or subtract 2 from a byte.
Regards,
David.