Re: orphaned PGDATA/base/ subdirectories

On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 17:44 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:

> are you in the habit of
> banging on ^C repeatedly? I couldn't reproduce such a problem in a
> small amount of testing though.

You mean C-c doesn't work like elevator buttons?

It wouldn't surprise me that I hit repeatedly. I certainly remember at
least one case where it seemed like I was being ignored and hit C-c
repeatedly. It's also quite possible that I logged out from ssh (with
~.), and I have no idea what signal (signals?) that ultimately sends.
And, last night I sent KILL when I was convinced that I was being
ignored and was about to restart the cluster anyway, for which I'd
expect remnants. However, I'm certain of the observation that disk full
led to remnants of a partial copy. That job was running in the
background when I wasn't logged in.

Thanks,
Reece

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