Stefan Huber <schweinsaug@crosswinds.net> writes:
> <kill -9 postmaster_pid snipped>
>> 7.1 uses a slightly different approach that hopefully avoids this
>> particular failure scenario...
> Is there any information availible _how_ this is avoided?
We try to remove and recreate, rather than just reuse, an existing
Postgres-owned segment. Reuse worked fine as long as the segment
size was >= what we were asking for, but otherwise not so fine...
regards, tom lane