Re: Autovacuum Launcher Process Exception - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Autovacuum Launcher Process Exception
Date
Msg-id 20121030213856.GO12961@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Autovacuum Launcher Process Exception  (elliott@cpi.com)
List pgsql-general
elliott@cpi.com wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have been running PostgreSQL for many months and just recently started
> getting this exception upon start up.  Does anyone know what the issue
> might be?
>
> LOG:   database system is ready to accept connections
> LOG:   autovacuum launcher started
> LOG:   autovacuum launcher process <PID 7060> was terminated by exception
> 0xC0000006
> HINT:   See C include file "ntstatus.h" for a description of the
> hexadecimal value.

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Programming/System/Windows__Programming/Q_20267274.html
(Scroll way down to see the answers to the question)

Do you have the binaries on a network filesystem which is sporadically
failing?

> LOG:   could not open temporary statistics file "global/pgstat.tmp": No
> such file or directory
> LOG:   all server processes terminated; reinitializing
> PANIC:   could not open control file "global/pg_control": No such file or
> directory

So the files in the data directory are suddenly gone?

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Álvaro Herrera                http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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