Tom Lane wrote: > > Fascinating. So maybe there is something to Bosco's theory of something > holding open the old pidfile. There could also have been a corrupt in-memory/cached descriptor in the filesystem code that never needed flushing to disk? That would help explain why it fully went away after the reboot and yet the on-disk stuff seems fine. > But what would that be? Possibly a 3rd party/home-grown monitoring program? Bosco. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general