On Tuesday, March 06, 2012 9:53:52 am Tom Lane 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). A thought, what if you do rm -rf * in the data directory? > > regards, tom lane -- Adrian Klaver adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxx -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
