Thom Brown <thom@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > /home/thom/Development/data was causing problems so: > mv data databroken > mkdir data > initdb > ... working fine again. I then used the postmaster.pid from this when > started up. But if I do: > pg_ctl stop > rm -rf data > mv databroken data > initdb > ... error messages appear again. Okay, so the question becomes: what is different between databroken and a freshly mkdir'd empty directory? If there is no visible difference in contents, ownership, or permissions, then it seems like this is evidence of a filesystem bug (ie, apparently empty directory acts nonempty for some operations). regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
