Thom Brown <thom@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 6 March 2012 18:01, Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> A thought, what if you do rm -rf * in the data directory? > I've done that a couple times, but no effect. I think Tom's point > about a filesystem bug is probably right. Yeah, given your "touch" experiment I think that you have more than enough ammunition to file a kernel bug. Apparently, the directory contents are corrupted in such a way that a file named "postmaster.pid" can be created but it's invisible to some (perhaps not all) operations. In some of the more complex directory data structures I could believe that this result is filename-sensitive (think corrupted hashtable...) 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
