On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 12:23:22PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Wayne Cuddy <lists-pgsql@useunix.net> writes:
> > I'm seeing this in my PGSQL logs, is this something to be concerned
> > about? I know the file system it sits on is reliable and the DB appears
> > to run with fine, additionally the log indicates it's a debug message. I
> > did some google searches and didn't find much.
> > When I examine the file system file by these names to not exist.
>
> If it only complains once per file name, this is expected behavior when
> somebody drops a table just before the checkpoint mechanism tries to
> fsync it. (If the failure were to repeat, then it might be something
> more interesting.) It does seem a bit odd that only fsm files are being
> complained of, though.
>
> What PG version is that exactly?
>
> regards, tom lane
It's 9.0.4. I'm frequently truncating tables but not dropping them.
