Hi, On 2018-12-22 20:49:58 -0500, Jeff Janes wrote: > After running a testing server out of storage, I tried to track down why it > was so hard to get it back up again. (Rather than what I usually do which > is just throwing it away and making the test be smaller). > > I couldn't start a backend because it couldn't write the relcache init file. > > I found this comment, but it did not carry its sentiment to completion: > > /* > * We used to consider this a fatal error, but we might as well > * continue with backend startup ... > */ > > With the attached patch applied, I could at least get a backend going so I > could drop some tables/indexes and free up space.
Why is this a good idea? It'll just cause hard to debug performance issues imo. Greetings, Andres Freund
