Hi,
On 2015-04-27 12:50:32 -0400, Patrice Drolet wrote:
> On Windows, this is really easy to have this problem : create a replication slot then try to restart the server. The
serverwill refuse to start.
>
> I checked the file it was not read only. There is nothing I could do to the file or the directory to succeed in
restartingpg.
>
> I put fsync=off and I could start pg. but this is not a good permanent solution!
I've pushed a fix for this. It'll be included in the next 9.4 minor
release.
Thanks for the report!
Andres Freund