"Martin A. Marques" <martin@math.unl.edu.ar> writes:
>> I agree. Dying if the startup subjob fails is one thing, but dying
>> because a routine checkpoint fails is another. The code is treating
>> those two cases alike however ... will change it.
> Just happend again. At this moment the postgres on that machine is not in
> production, but should be in a short future. Is there a chance of getting
> some kind of patch, or maybe changing some configuratin parameters of the OS
> or the postmaster?
The fix is in CVS, pull it out if you need it:
http://www.postgresql.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c
regards, tom lane