Re: Fail to connect after server crash

Checked some logs and a backup job was running at the same time as the
insertions. Must have been the backup job locking a file. Is there a
way to get the server to restart or should I reinstall?

Scott Marlowe wrote:
> Like Jonathan pointed out, looks like a permission issue. We see
> these things show up on Windows boxes quite often when a virus checker
> / spyware checker kicks in and does something stupid like lock a file
> that postgresql needs to have exclusive access to.
>
> Simple answer there is to put postgresql on it's own machine with no
> spyware detection / anti-virus software on it, or more complexly, tell
> it to ignore the directories where postgresql lives.
>
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