Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Yann ROBIN <me.show@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> kill -9 of the writer process > Are you sure you killed all the postgres backends before restarting > the server? If other backends are still running, with a dead > postmaster, and you restart the server, instant corruption. There are interlocks against that ... although if you were foolish enough to manually remove postmaster.pid, you could defeat them :-( regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
