From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Bosco Rama <postgres(at)boscorama(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Unhelpful initdb error message |
Date: | 2012-03-06 18:20:39 |
Message-ID: | 2746.1331058039@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Bosco Rama <postgres(at)boscorama(dot)com> writes:
> Thom Brown wrote:
>> I've done that a couple times, but no effect. I think Tom's point
>> about a filesystem bug is probably right.
> Have you rebooted since this started? There may be a process that is
> holding the pid file 'deleted but present' until the process terminates.
Even if something is holding the file open, that wouldn't prevent unlink
from removing the directory entry for it; or even if we were talking
about a badly-designed filesystem that failed to follow standard Unix
semantics, that wouldn't explain why the directory entry is apparently
visible to some operations but not others.
Still, I agree with your point: Thom should reboot and see if the
misbehavior is still there, because that would be useful info for his
bug report.
regards, tom lane
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