What did make me scratch my head was a short stream of @ symbols (well they show up as @ symbols in vi) in the log file of the main server (others are slony subscribers).
1,5 weeks ago there was reported on this list the problem "postgres service not starting on windows"; after consulting event log the user reported as message "bogus data in postmaster.pid". After deleting postmaster.pid the service started up fine.
Soon after a customer of mine reported the same error, also on windows; and before deleting postmaster.pid I got a copy of that "bogus one". AND: there where also a lot of @@@@ symobols in postmaster.pid (hex 0)
After reading the answers to the funny chars in the logs and no fsync on the logs: is there a fsync on postmaster.pid? Or is that file not considered important enough?
(just digging for the reason for corrupted data in postmaster.pid)...
Harald
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