Permission denied on fsync / Win32 (was right sibling is not next child)

It turns out we've been getting rather huge numbers of "Permission
denied" errors relating to fsync so perhaps it wasn't really a precursor
to the crash as I'd previously thought.

I've pasted in a complete list following this email covering the time
span from 3/20 to 4/6.  The number in the first column is the number of
times the given log message appeared.

The interesting thing is that _none_ of the referenced relfilenode
numbers actually appear in the file system.

In a possibly related note, I've confirmed there is a race condition on
Windows when the temporary stats file is renamed to the working one.
There is apparently a window where a backend opening the stats file will
find it missing.  I'll send more info later.  I haven't had a chance to
come back to it yet.

Regarding your other questions:
  - The file system is NTFS
  - Regarding the initial crash, looking more closely, I don't think it
was a crash at all (or at most it was a human-induced "crash").  In the
log everything looks normal (assuming the Permission denied errors are
"normal"), and then

[2006-03-31 14:26:30.705 ] 2328 LOG:  received fast shutdown request
[2006-03-31 14:35:33.173 ] 4016 <viewer bigbird 127.0.0.1(3413)> FATAL:
 the database system is shutting down
[2006-03-31 14:35:33.189 ] 6504 <viewer bigbird 127.0.0.1(3414)> FATAL:
 the database system is shutting down
....
[2006-03-31 14:39:53.595 ] 7576 <viewer bigbird 165.219.80.39(36220)>
FATAL:  the database system is shutting down

and in the next log file

[2006-03-31 14:31:05.298 ] 608 LOG:  database system was interrupted at
2006-03-31 13:20:06 Central Standard Time
[2006-03-31 14:31:05.314 ] 608 LOG:  checkpoint record is at
EF/B41D7580
[2006-03-31 14:31:05.314 ] 608 LOG:  redo record is at EF/B41A0C08;
undo record is at 0/0; shutdown FALSE
[2006-03-31 14:31:05.314 ] 608 LOG:  next transaction ID: 295492806;
next OID: 1395901
[2006-03-31 14:31:05.314 ] 608 LOG:  next MultiXactId: 1; next
MultiXactOffset: 0
[2006-03-31 14:31:05.314 ] 608 LOG:  database system was not properly
shut down; automatic recovery in progress

Pete

    747 LOG:  could not fsync segment 0 of relation 1663/16385/1361661:
Permission denied
    414 LOG:  could not fsync segment 0 of relation 1663/16385/1363194:
Permission denied
      2 LOG:  could not fsync segment 0 of relation 1663/16385/1363196:
Permission denied
    441 LOG:  could not fsync segment 0 of relation 1663/16385/1369401:
Permission denied
   4520 LOG:  could not fsync segment 0 of relation 1663/16385/1373027:
Permission denied
   1024 LOG:  could not fsync segment 0 of relation 1663/16385/1374375:
Permission denied
   2683 LOG:  could not fsync segment 0 of relation 1663/16385/1375726:
Permission denied
    775 LOG:  could not fsync segment 0 of relation 1663/16385/1375733:
Permission denied
     83 LOG:  could not fsync segment 0 of relation 1663/16385/1377367:
Permission denied
     64 LOG:  could not fsync segment 0 of relation 1663/16385/1377685:
Permission denied
   3334 LOG:  could not fsync segment 0 of relation 1663/16385/1379641:
Permission denied
     16 LOG:  could not fsync segment 0 of relation 1663/16385/1381290:
Permission denied
    819 LOG:  could not fsync segment 0 of relation 1663/16385/1383833:
Permission denied
    347 LOG:  could not fsync segment 0 of relation 1663/16385/1386037:
Permission denied
      1 LOG:  could not fsync segment 0 of relation 1663/16385/1388257:
Permission denied
    135 LOG:  could not fsync segment 0 of relation 1663/16385/1388264:
Permission denied
   6397 LOG:  could not fsync segment 0 of relation 1663/16385/1389813:
Permission denied
   3719 LOG:  could not fsync segment 0 of relation 1663/16385/1391589:
Permission denied
    763 LOG:  could not fsync segment 0 of relation 1663/16385/1391610:
Permission denied
  10784 LOG:  could not fsync segment 0 of relation 1663/16385/1392439:
Permission denied
   5846 LOG:  could not fsync segment 0 of relation 1663/16385/1392444:
Permission denied
      1 LOG:  could not fsync segment 0 of relation 1663/16385/2282587:
Permission denied
    243 LOG:  could not fsync segment 0 of relation 1663/16385/2282602:
Permission denied
    526 LOG:  could not fsync segment 0 of relation 1663/16385/2293690:
Permission denied
   1754 LOG:  could not fsync segment 0 of relation 1663/16385/2293695:
Permission denied
    894 LOG:  could not fsync segment 0 of relation 1663/16385/2304886:
Permission denied
    692 LOG:  could not fsync segment 0 of relation 1663/16385/2304891:
Permission denied
   1556 LOG:  could not fsync segment 0 of relation 1663/16385/2315303:
Permission denied


>>> Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> 04/13/06 2:30 am >>>
crash at 14:31?  What was the immediate cause of the crash (I'm
expecting a PANIC or possibly an Assert triggered it)?

BTW, what sort of filesystem is the database sitting on, on this
machine?