The following bug has been logged online:
Bug reference: 5603
Logged by: Nacho Mezzadra
Email address: nachomezzadra@gmail.com
PostgreSQL version: 8.3.11
Operating system: Red Hat Enterprise 5.3
Description: pg_tblspc and pg_twoface directories get deleted when
starting up service
Details:
This issue happened not very frequently, but it happened to me 3 times, in 3
different Red Hat servers.
The thing is that when stopping the Postgresql service with the
"/sbin/service postgresql-8.3 stop" command, and after that starting it with
the "/sbin/service postgresql-8.3 start" command (haven't tried with the
restart one though), a few times both pg_tblspc and pg_twoface directories
(inside data directory) get somehow deleted and hence the start service
command fails. Looking in the log files I find the following error:
2010-07-19 16:54:55 ISTFATAL: could not open directory "pg_tblspc": No such
file or directory
So I manually create the "pg_tblspc" directory, and then try to start again
the service unsuccessfully, getting this time a similar error, but saying
that pg_twoface directory doesn't exist.
After creating the pg_twoface directory, service can be successfully
started.
Please note that all these always happened running the service command as
root.
All 3 linux boxes are running over a VMWare host.
