From: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
To: Mark Dilger <markdilger@yahoo.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>; deepak <deepak.pn@gmail.com>; Alban Hertroys <haramrae@gmail.com>; "pgsql-general@postgresql.org" <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 3:58 AM
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] FATAL: lock file "postmaster.pid" already exists
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 12:47 AM, Mark Dilger <
markdilger@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I am running this code on Windows 2003. It
> appears that postgres has in src/port/dirent.c
> a port of readdir() that internally uses the
> WIN32_FIND_DATA structure, and the function
> FindNextFile() to iterate through the directory.
> Looking at the documentation, it seems that
> this function does collect file creation time,
> last access time, last write time, file size, etc.,
> much like performing a stat.
>
> In my case, the code is iterating through roughly
> 56,000 files. Apparently, this is doing the
> equivalent of a stat on each of them.
how did you end up with 56,000 files? Lots and lots and lots of tables?
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