Tony Webb <amw@sanger.ac.uk> writes:
> I have a 8.3 cluster running under VM. It seems fine for most activities
> (a bit slow but error free) but if the developer issues a delete
> statement it consistently kills the database.
>>> 2009-06-25 03:34:26 BST LOG: 00000: server process (PID 8379) was
>>> terminated by signal 9: Killed
Something is issuing kill -9 against random Postgres processes.
If you didn't do it yourself, the odds are about 100% that it was
the Linux kernel's "OOM kill" mechanism, which is best disabled
on any server box.
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/kernel-resources.html#AEN22235
regards, tom lane
