On 6 March 2012 17:53, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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). You may well be right. There appear to be dark forces at work here: thom@swift:~/Development/data$ touch postmaster.pid thom@swift:~/Development/data$ ls -l total 0 thom@swift:~/Development/data$ touch file.txt thom@swift:~/Development/data$ ls -l total 8 -rw-rw-r-- 1 thom thom 0 2012-03-06 17:59 file.txt -- Thom -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
