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

From Douglas McNaught
Subject Re: postmaster going down own its on
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Msg-id 87irpl332t.fsf@suzuka.mcnaught.org
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In response to Re: postmaster going down own its on  (Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>)
Responses Re: postmaster going down own its on  (Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>)
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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.

-Doug

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