Tom Lane wrote: > "Merlin Moncure" <mmoncure@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> On 3/2/07, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> "Merlin Moncure" <mmoncure@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >>>> I think this explains the trigger that was blowing up my FC4 box. >>> I dug in the archives a bit and couldn't find the report you're >>> referring to? > >> I was referring to this: >> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-02/msg01418.php > > Oh, the kernel-panic thing. Hm, I wouldn't have thought that replacing > a file at a huge rate would induce a kernel panic ... but who knows? > Do you want to try installing the one-liner patch and see if the panic > goes away? > > Actually I was wondering a bit if that strange Windows error discussed > earlier today could be triggered by this behavior: > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2007-03/msg00000.php I think that's very likely. If we're updaitng the file *that* often, we're certainly doing something that's very unusual for the windows filesystem, and possibly for the hardware as well :-) //Magnus
