Re: Restart after poweroutage

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: aklaver(at)comcast(dot)net, lapham(at)jandr(dot)org
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Restart after poweroutage
Date: 2006-09-25 21:48:44
Message-ID: 15141.1159220924@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Adrian Klaver <aklaver(at)comcast(dot)net> writes:
> On Sunday 24 September 2006 09:17 am, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Jon Lapham <lapham(at)jandr(dot)org> writes:
>>> FATAL: pre-existing shared memory block (key 5432001, ID 65536) is
>>> still in use
>>
>> This is extremely odd, because a shared memory block could not possibly
>> have survived a reboot.

> In the its a small world department I experienced the same problem shortly
> after reading this message.

I spent quite some time today trying to duplicate this failure (by
pulling the plug on an up-to-date Fedora Core 5 machine). No luck.
I suppose there is some contributing factor on your machines that
we haven't identified yet ...

regards, tom lane

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