Mott Leroy <mott@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Some time ago, I accidentally did a kill -9 on the postmaster (yes, I > know, I know), when trying to kill -9 one of the child processes (er, > yeah, probably bad too). This turned out to be pretty bad for us. It put > the database in a bad state. I had to run some kind of hacky command (I > don't recall which one) to even get postgres to start up again. Since > then, the log file is littered with: > LOG: incomplete startup packet It's impossible to believe that that's even slightly related. "Incomplete startup packet" means that you've got broken client-side software, or perhaps that something is portscanning you. You sure you weren't seeing those beforehand? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
