Tom Lane wrote:
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> Fascinating. So maybe there is something to Bosco's theory of something
> holding open the old pidfile.
There could also have been a corrupt in-memory/cached descriptor in the
filesystem code that never needed flushing to disk? That would help
explain why it fully went away after the reboot and yet the on-disk stuff
seems fine.
> But what would that be?
Possibly a 3rd party/home-grown monitoring program?
Bosco.