Re: [HACKERS] Checkpoint request failed on version 8.2.1.

Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> pg_control is certainly not ever deleted or renamed, and in fact I
>> believe there's an LWLock enforcing that only one PG process at a time
>> is even touching it.  So we need another theory to explain this one :-(

> Right. What we need is a list of which processes have handles open to
> the file, which can be dumped using Process Explorer (there are other
> sysinternals tools to do it as well, but PE is probably the easiest)-

Hmm, are you just assuming that the underlying error is
ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION?  One of the things that's bothered me all along
is that there are a dozen different Windows error codes that we map to
EACCES ... perhaps it's time to think about disambiguating that a bit
better?

            regards, tom lane