My understanding of VSS is that only one non-VSS aware app can access the data at any one time. All I meant was that if their NetBackup version was old that they probably cannot benefit from VSS since I doubt the Win32 PG port knows about it either. Brandon Aiken -----Original Message----- From: Martijn van Oosterhout [mailto:kleptog@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 5:23 PM To: Brandon Aiken Cc: Merlin Moncure; pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [GENERAL] could not write to log -> PANIC -> System down On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 05:13:30PM -0500, Brandon Aiken wrote: > Of course, it's Windows. "Should not" is often a suggestion, it seems. > As a port, postmaster.exe was presumably not written with VSS in mind, > so it might object to the shadow copy instantiation (which, again, it > *should* not be able to do). Any backup system that is not transparent to processes running on the system seems to be flawed by design. > No idea on the frequent autovacuuming. Do you do a lot of deletes? In those messages "processing" just means it woke up to see if there was anything to do. It probably didn't do anything. Waking up every minute is not that big a deal... Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@xxxxxxxxx> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate.
