Re: Power outage and funny chars in the logs

> 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).
>
> mentioning those @@@@@ symbols ...

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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