I'm sorry, but the issue has been fixed now; we've upgraded to postgres-8.3, so 
I can't reproduce this anymore..
I'm not completely sure how it got fixed (it wasn't me), but I can ask the 
person who fixed it and get back to you tomorrow; perhaps that might help 
narrow the field a little bit.

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 09:31:06AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
"Helge Milde" <[email protected]> writes:
It seems the recovery process is failing; doing a strace on the 'postgres:
startup process' pid, I see this:

-- strace log start ---
Process 29888 attached - interrupt to quit
close(14)                               = 0
open("pg_clog/021B", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_LARGEFILE, 0600) = 14
_llseek(14, 245760, [245760], SEEK_SET) = 0
write(14, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 8192)
= 8192
fsync(14)                               = 0
close(14)                               = 0
open("pg_clog/021B", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_LARGEFILE, 0600) = 14
_llseek(14, 245760, [245760], SEEK_SET) = 0
write(14, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 8192)
= 8192
fsync(14)                               = 0
close(14)                               = 0
-- strace log end ---

This repeats infinetly.

Hmm, can you attach to that process with gdb and collect a few stack
traces to show where it's looping?  This isn't a symptom we've seen
before, AFAIR.

                        regards, tom lane

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Helge Milde, 69701808
www.monsternett.no


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