> > This is a fairly spectacular failure :-(. As far as I can see from the > semctl and shmctl man pages, the only plausible reason for EINVAL is > that something had deleted the semaphores and shared memory out from > under Postgres. I do not believe that Postgres itself could have done
> that --- it had to be some external agency. Unless the kernel is > broken, whatever requested those deletions had to be running as root or > as postgres in order to have the necessary permissions. You sure you > didn't have some loose-cannon script running around issuing ipcrm > commands? > No, I'm not sure at all about a loose-cannon script running around issuing ipcrm commands. I have to ask the other staff members what scripts are running. I already had a suspicion that something like an ipcrm command is causing this, but it was denied. Now, with your support they probably will believe me. Thanks for the quick reply. Regards, Christoph ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
