On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Ati Rosselet <ati(dot)rosselet(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> I'm still getting a lot of these entries in my eventlog whenever I have a
> reasonably large amount of logging:
>
> Event Type: Error
> Event Source: PostgreSQL
> Event Category: None
> Event ID: 0
> Date: 10/22/2008
> Time: 9:36:28 AM
> User: N/A
> Computer: ----------
> Description:
> could not write to log file: Bad file descriptor
>
> production server 8.3.3 (tried with 8.3.4 - same thing), win 2003 server.
> I'd send this to psql-bugs, but I can't figure out how to reproduce it.. and
> apparently noone else has seen this? Or is noone else running postgres on
> win2003??? (survey says??)
>
> The timing of each appears to be when log is rolled over (size limited to
> 10MB) and postgres attempts to write a log entry at the same time:
>
> Any ideas? help? How to proceed???
Maybe you've got a virus scanner that's locking your log files on you?