On Tue, 23 May 2006, Tom Lane wrote:
> I'm still thinking that the simplest explanation is that $PGDATA/pg_clog/
> is on the NAS device. Please double-check the file locations.
I know that seems like an excellent candidate, but it really isn't, I swear.
In fact, you almost had me convinced the last time you asked me to check.. I
thought some helpful admin had moved something, but no:
postgres 9194 0.0 0.4 486568 16464 ? S May16 0:11
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -p 5432 -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
db3:~/data $ pwd
/usr/local/pgsql/data
db3:~/data $ ls -l
total 64
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 4 Feb 13 20:13 PG_VERSION
drwx------ 6 postgres postgres 4096 Feb 13 21:00 base
drwx------ 2 postgres postgres 4096 May 22 21:03 global
drwx------ 2 postgres postgres 4096 May 22 17:45 pg_clog
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 3575 Feb 13 20:13 pg_hba.conf
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 1460 Feb 13 20:13 pg_ident.conf
drwx------ 4 postgres postgres 4096 Feb 13 20:13 pg_multixact
drwx------ 2 postgres postgres 4096 May 22 20:45 pg_subtrans
drwx------ 2 postgres postgres 4096 Feb 13 20:13 pg_tblspc
drwx------ 2 postgres postgres 4096 Feb 13 20:13 pg_twophase
lrwxrwxrwx 1 postgres postgres 9 Feb 13 22:10 pg_xlog -> /pg_xlog/
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 13688 May 16 17:50 postgresql.conf
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 63 May 16 17:54 postmaster.opts
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 47 May 16 17:54 postmaster.pid
db3:~/data $ mount
/dev/sda2 on / type ext3 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
/dev/sda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
/dev/sdb1 on /usr/local/pgsql type ext3 (rw,data=writeback)
/dev/sda5 on /var type ext3 (rw)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)
//10.1.1.28/pgbackup on /mnt/pgbackup type cifs (rw,mand,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
So, no..I wish it was that easy. :-/
If you have any other suggestions or inspirations, I'm all ears!
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