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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: mgbii bax <gezeala@gmail.com>
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: systemd deletes shared memory segment in /dev/shm/Postgresql.NNNNNN
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2016 14:03:52 -0500
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On 1/21/16 7:07 PM, mgbii bax wrote:
> We were hit by some interesting addition to systemd, it appears that
> logging in/out to the machine with the user account used to start the
> postgres service has some catastrophic effect. A systemd process deleted
> Postgresql.NNNN file in /dev/shm (tmpfs).

The documentation of systemd states that this only happens for
non-system users.  Can you check whether your "postgres" user (or
whatever you are using) is a system user?



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