On 31 May 2010 13:10, Dale Gallagher <dale.gallagher@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I am now using strace on postgres startup and watching the filesystem > during the creation of the database. So far, it seems that files in > PGHOME/base/1234/ are appearing, but VERY slowly. Thus far it's taken > 7 minutes and 92 files have been created. The command has not > completed within psql.... > > Could this be a filesystem corruption issue? The host is using ext4. The command finally completed. It took a VERY long time. Something is wrong, but I have no clue what. -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin