Re: unexpected shutdown - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Alexander Staubo
Subject Re: unexpected shutdown
Date
Msg-id 88daf38c0706181326k2c59ef9dw1a2acd3f3c8853a0@mail.gmail.com
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In response to unexpected shutdown  (developer@wexwarez.com)
List pgsql-general
On 6/18/07, developer@wexwarez.com <developer@wexwarez.com> wrote:
> My database has shutdown several times in the last couple days.  I have no
> idea why.
[...]
> LOG:  server process (PID 501) was terminated by signal 9

If this is Linux, check the kernel log (typically /var/log/kern.log,
or run dmesg) and look for lines like these, which indicate that the
kernel forcibly killed the process:

May 22 12:43:24 sultan kernel: [232933.420709] Out of Memory: Killed
process 5345 (postgres).

Alexander.

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