Bosco Rama <postgres@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Thom Brown wrote: >> I've done that a couple times, but no effect. I think Tom's point >> about a filesystem bug is probably right. > Have you rebooted since this started? There may be a process that is > holding the pid file 'deleted but present' until the process terminates. Even if something is holding the file open, that wouldn't prevent unlink from removing the directory entry for it; or even if we were talking about a badly-designed filesystem that failed to follow standard Unix semantics, that wouldn't explain why the directory entry is apparently visible to some operations but not others. Still, I agree with your point: Thom should reboot and see if the misbehavior is still there, because that would be useful info for his bug report. 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
