Some time ago, Jon Lapham <lapham@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Today I had a power outage which upon reboot seems to have done > something to cause Postgresql to not restart properly. This has > happened to me before: > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2006-09/msg00938.php We finally tracked down the cause of this, and it is indeed a Linux kernel bug: it's simply returning the wrong error code. There'll be a workaround in the next set of Postgres releases. regards, tom lane
