From: Wayne Cuddy <lists-pgsql@useunix.net>
To: PostgreSQL <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: fsync debug messages in pgsql logs
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 12:53:04 -0400
Message-ID: <20120808165304.GF16371@slacker.ja10629.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <12758.1344443002@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 12:23:22PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Wayne Cuddy <lists-pgsql@useunix.net> writes:
> > I'm seeing this in my PGSQL logs, is this something to be concerned
> > about? I know the file system it sits on is reliable and the DB appears
> > to run with fine, additionally the log indicates it's a debug message. I
> > did some google searches and didn't find much.
> > When I examine the file system file by these names to not exist.
>
> If it only complains once per file name, this is expected behavior when
> somebody drops a table just before the checkpoint mechanism tries to
> fsync it. (If the failure were to repeat, then it might be something
> more interesting.) It does seem a bit odd that only fsm files are being
> complained of, though.
>
> What PG version is that exactly?
>
> regards, tom lane
It's 9.0.4. I'm frequently truncating tables but not dropping them.
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