Re: How serious are these problems?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Steven Ridgway <admin(at)heatsinksoftware(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: How serious are these problems?
Date: 2006-07-03 15:16:19
Message-ID: 3224.1151939779@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Steven Ridgway <admin(at)heatsinksoftware(dot)com> writes:
> 2) Occasionally (3 times in the last 2 months) the database locks up. When this happens the log file contains a bunch of errors along the lines of :

> 2006-06-26 14:53:40 LOG: could not fsync segment 0 of relation 1663/16672/50807554: Permission denied

> 2006-06-26 14:53:40 ERROR: storage sync failed on magnetic disk: Permission denied

We've seen reports of this sort of symptom due to anti-virus software
deciding that the postmaster is a virus :-(. What add-on AV code do
you have on that machine?

regards, tom lane

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