Magnus Hagander <magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 09:44:19AM +0900, Paul Lambert wrote: >> I am periodically getting errors pop up on the server console of the >> following nature: >> The File or directory D:\PostgresQL\Data\global\pgstat.stat is corrupt >> and unreadable. Please run the Chkdsk utility. > They can *not* be caused by a bug in PostgreSQL - no more than a kernel > oops in linux is the fault of PostgreSQL. Now, we do push the filesystem > and disk layer in an unusual way with the pgstats writes, gievn that we > rewrite the same file over and over and over and over again at very > short intervals. But nothing says we're not allowed to do that :-) I'm wondering whether the message is coming from the kernel, or some sort of file-scanning utility that gets confused when a file is deleted while it's looking at it. regards, tom lane
