Re: Backend exited with signal 14? - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Backend exited with signal 14?
Date
Msg-id 10913.1053639136@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Backend exited with signal 14?  (Jeff Boes <jboes@nexcerpt.com>)
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Jeff Boes <jboes@nexcerpt.com> writes:
> We had a production server crash last night. The postmaster log is given
> below:
> 2003-05-22 03:16:22 [26031]  DEBUG:  server process (pid 16661) was
> terminated by signal 14

It's really hard to see how that could happen.  There is no point in the
lifespan of a backend where there is not a valid signal handler for
SIGALRM --- it inherits SIG_IGN from the postmaster, and changes that
to a normal handler routine before it ever enables the alarm anyway.

Color me baffled ... is it possible this is a kernel or glibc bug?

            regards, tom lane

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