> On 18 Jun 2018, at 17:34, Sherrylyn Branchaw <sbranchaw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > In the other case, the logs recorded > > LOG: all server processes terminated; reinitializing > LOG: dynamic shared memory control segment is corrupt > LOG: incomplete data in "postmaster.pid": found only 1 newlines while trying to add line 7 > > In that case, the database did not restart on its own. It was 5 am on Sunday, so the on-call SRE just manually started the database up, and it appears to have been running fine since. That rings a bell. Some versions of systemd apparently clean up shared memory belonging to a user when it detects the user logs out. ISTR that we had to disable that on our CentOS 7 server to stop crashes from happening. More details here: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Systemd Alban Hertroys -- If you can't see the forest for the trees, cut the trees and you'll find there is no forest.
