Yeah, I was kind of thinking that PG detects the semaphore not existing, bails immediately, restarts clean, thus no problem. I just wanted to hear from people, like you, that know way more than I do about the internals. > On Aug 31, 2017, at 9:08 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > scott ribe <scott_ribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> Thanks to a typo, I did not turn off systemd's RemoveIPC, and had many many pg restarts before I figured out the problem. > >> Should my data be OK? Or do I need to dump & reload? > > I don't know of any reason to think that that poses a data corruption > risk. (But I've been wrong before.) > > regards, tom lane -- Scott Ribe scott_ribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (303) 722-0567 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general