> > Not having looked at the internals of db_link, I'd say it's certainly > possible that this is the reason for the failed restart. If db_link is > blocking something, the postmaster can't kill it off, and it'll still be > sitting there holding a reference to the shared memory segment. > > That said, it shouldn't be the reason why it's crashing in the first > place - just the reason why it won't restart properly. > Is this a problem in Unix? We are about 1 - 2 weeks away from moving this database to Solaris. Jon
