On 09/05/2012 12:21 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
was this a client process or a postgres process?   kill -9 on postgres
processes can easily trigger data corruption.

It certainly shouldn't.

kill -9 of the postmaster, deletion of postmaster.pid, and re-starting postgresql *might* but AFAIK even then you'll have to bypass the shared memory lockout (unless you're on Windows).

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Craig Ringer



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