On Sep 26, 2006, at 7:06 AM, Jon Lapham wrote:
While trying to reproduce power outage restart problem I reported earlier, I have found something odd when pulling the plug on a VM during a createdb operation.

If I run...
sleep 3; echo starting; createdb bar
...and power off the VM while the "createdb bar" is running.

Upon restart, about 50% of the time I can reproduce the following error message:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ psql bar
psql: FATAL:  database "bar" does not exist
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ createdb bar
createdb: database creation failed: ERROR: could not create directory "base/65536": File exists
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ createdb bar
CREATE DATABASE

So, running "createdb bar" a second time works. This is probably not a bug, but I thought I'd mention it anyway as it could potentially cause problems for people running scripts.

Could this be a timing issue? IE: are you just issuing the first createdb bar too soon after the database has started?

I suspect this is a bug...
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Jim Nasby                                            [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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