On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 10:45:16AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > 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. That specific message comes from the kernel. //Magnus
