Tom Lane wrote:
>
> Fascinating. So maybe there is something to Bosco's theory of something
> holding open the old pidfile.
There could also have been a corrupt in-memory/cached descriptor in the
filesystem code that never needed flushing to disk? That would help
explain why it fully went away after the reboot and yet the on-disk stuff
seems fine.
> But what would that be?
Possibly a 3rd party/home-grown monitoring program?
Bosco.
