| From: | Albe Laurenz <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at> |
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| To: | "Rob Goethals / SNP *EXTERN*" <Rob(dot)Goethals(at)snp(dot)nl> |
| Cc: | "'pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org'" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: could not create lock file postmaster.pid: No such file or directory, but file does exist |
| Date: | 2014-02-17 15:20:24 |
| Message-ID: | A737B7A37273E048B164557ADEF4A58B17CA7F12@ntex2010i.host.magwien.gv.at |
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Rob Goethals wrote:
> OK, clear. I hereby send this reply also to the list.
Cool.
>> Interesting.
>> How did you get PostgreSQL into this state? Did you set fsync=off or similar?
>> Which storage did you put pg_xlog on?
> 2014-02-15 00:49:04 CET LOG: WAL writer process (PID 1127) was terminated by signal 6: Aborted
Ouch.
> Furthermore I checked my conf-file and my fsync is indeed set to off.
Well, that is one reason why crash recovery is not working.
> I mounted a directory on a NTFS network-disk (because of the available size and considering the amount
> of OSM-data is pretty big). This is where I put all my database data, so also the pg_xlog.
Double ouch.
CIFS is not a supported file system.
At least that explains your problems.
Try with a local file system or NFS with hard foreground mount.
Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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