vwu98034@lycos.com writes:
> When I try to access PG from PC command prompt with the psql command, I get the following error message:
> psql: server closed the connection unexpectedly
> This probably mean the server terminated abnormally before or while processing the request.
> This time a error message shows up in the PG log file: "FATAL: could not reattach to shared memory (key=5432001,
addr=011D0000):Invalid argument"
If you're running PG on Windows, this is a known problem that was fixed
some time ago ...
> As I can tell, the PG log file doesn't tell the whole story. The version of PG is 8.0.
... but not *that* long ago. 8.0.x on Windows was desupported more than
three years ago, and as of last year is out of support on all platforms.
Please update to a current version.
http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.865
regards, tom lane