OK, it is clear to me that I didn't make the best choices setting up this database. :( I am happy I found this list because I am learning a lot in a very short period of time. :) Thank you all for your tips and comments. I will definitely move the database to a Linux-system and set fsync to on. I hope this will give me a more stable environment. Furthermore I'll dive into the whole database-backup subject so next time I'll have something to restore if things go wrong. Rob Goethals. > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: Albe Laurenz [mailto:laurenz.albe@xxxxxxxxxx] > Verzonden: maandag 17 februari 2014 16:20 > Aan: Rob Goethals > CC: 'pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx' > Onderwerp: RE: could not create lock file postmaster.pid: No such file or > directory, but file does exist > > Rob Goethals wrote: > > OK, clear. I hereby send this reply also to the list. > > Cool. > > >> Interesting. > >> How did you get PostgreSQL into this state? Did you set fsync=off or > similar? > >> Which storage did you put pg_xlog on? > > > 2014-02-15 00:49:04 CET LOG: WAL writer process (PID 1127) was > > terminated by signal 6: Aborted > > Ouch. > > > Furthermore I checked my conf-file and my fsync is indeed set to off. > > Well, that is one reason why crash recovery is not working. > > > I mounted a directory on a NTFS network-disk (because of the available > > size and considering the amount of OSM-data is pretty big). This is where I > put all my database data, so also the pg_xlog. > > Double ouch. > CIFS is not a supported file system. > > At least that explains your problems. > Try with a local file system or NFS with hard foreground mount. > > Yours, > Laurenz Albe -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
