Thanks, I have put one of the other developers working on this issue, to comment.
-- Deepak On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 10:55 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > deepak <deepak...@gmail.com> writes: > > We could reproduce the start-up problem on Windows 2003. After a reboot, > > postmaster, in its start-up sequence cleans up old temporary files, and > > this step used to take several minutes (a little over 4 minutes), > delaying > > the writing of line 6 onwards into the PID file. This delay caused pg_ctl > > to timeout, leaving behind an orphaned postgres.exe process (which > > eventually forks off many other postgres.exe processes). > > Hmm. It's easy enough to postpone temp file cleanup till after the > postmaster's PID file is completely written, so I've committed a patch > for that. However, I find it mildly astonishing that such cleanup could > take multiple minutes. What are you using for storage, a man with an > abacus? > > regards, tom lane >
