Scott Yeadon <scott.yeadon@anu.edu.au> writes:
> The log output postgres returned is as follows:
> FATAL: the database system is shutting down
Sounds to me like something told the postmaster to shut down (sent it a
SIGTERM signal, in other words). If you are certain you did not do this
manually, look around to see if there's any resource-limiting code in
effect that might try to kill the postmaster after it's used X amount of
cpu time or disk space or whatever.
> A secondary issue is that postmaster will not shut down properly under 7.4.1,
> I always have to use the "fast" shutdown mode.
You have a client that's not letting go of its connection.
regards, tom lane
