The following bug has been logged online:
Bug reference: 2712
Logged by: Thomas H
Email address: me@alternize.com
PostgreSQL version: 8.2b1
Operating system: windows 2003 standard
Description: could not fsync segment: Permission denied
Details:
sometimes we're seeing loads of errors in the log:
2006-10-22 23:48:50 LOG: could not fsync segment 0 of relation
1663/3964774/6409340: Permission denied
2006-10-22 23:48:50 ERROR: storage sync failed on magnetic disk: Permission
denied
2006-10-22 23:48:51 LOG: could not fsync segment 0 of relation
1663/3964774/6409340: Permission denied
2006-10-22 23:48:51 ERROR: storage sync failed on magnetic disk: Permission
denied
2006-10-22 23:48:52 LOG: could not fsync segment 0 of relation
1663/3964774/6409340: Permission denied
2006-10-22 23:48:52 ERROR: storage sync failed on magnetic disk: Permission
denied
2006-10-22 23:48:53 LOG: could not fsync segment 0 of relation
1663/3964774/6409340: Permission denied
2006-10-22 23:48:53 ERROR: storage sync failed on magnetic disk: Permission
denied
{...}
when this happens, there are also files locked within the data\base\{dbid}\.
access to those files are denied by the os - the files vanish as soon as
postmaster ist stopped & restarted.
i haven't yet found a possible reason - i suspect the error to appear
*sometimes* after issuing a "VACUUM FULL ANALYZE {tablename}" / "REINDEX
TABLE {tablename}".
the hardware is checked and ok.