On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 :-( I've had to remove it once or twice in the past (has that behavior changed in more recent versions, where it's smarter about it?) but I knew to check for orphaned backends as well. If someone did and didn't respectively then they'd definitely be seeing odd behaviour and a corrupted database. -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
