Re: postmaster going down own its on - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Richard Huxton
Subject Re: postmaster going down own its on
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Msg-id 4436711D.2010800@archonet.com
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In response to Re: postmaster going down own its on  (Douglas McNaught <doug@mcnaught.org>)
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Douglas McNaught wrote:
> Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com> writes:
>
>> surabhi.ahuja wrote:
>>> hi, is it possible for postmaster to go doen on its own?
>>> all what the logs say is FATAL: terminating connection dur to
>>> administrator's command.
>> Someone or something is issuing a kill command. It couldn't be the
>> infamous Linux out-of-memory handler, could it? Check your system logs
>> for details.
>
> I'm not sure it's that--the OOM killer uses SIGKILL which would take
> down the server before it could write that log entry.

Hmm... (tests it) you're right. What would be sending SIGTERM to a backend?

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   Richard Huxton
   Archonet Ltd

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