On 31 May 2010 13:10, Dale Gallagher <dale(dot)gallagher(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> I am now using strace on postgres startup and watching the filesystem
> during the creation of the database. So far, it seems that files in
> PGHOME/base/1234/ are appearing, but VERY slowly. Thus far it's taken
> 7 minutes and 92 files have been created. The command has not
> completed within psql....
>
> Could this be a filesystem corruption issue? The host is using ext4.
The command finally completed. It took a VERY long time. Something is
wrong, but I have no clue what.