Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com> writes:
> On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Yann ROBIN <me.show@gmail.com> wrote:
>> kill -9 of the writer process
> Are you sure you killed all the postgres backends before restarting
> the server? If other backends are still running, with a dead
> postmaster, and you restart the server, instant corruption.
There are interlocks against that ... although if you were foolish
enough to manually remove postmaster.pid, you could defeat them :-(
regards, tom lane