Re: Weird system lockups occuring when JDBC throws error - Mailing list pgsql-jdbc

On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Jay Liu wrote:

> I'm having some problems with my postgres  installation on debian (Virtual
> PC 2007)
>
> Debian etch 4.0 (running 2.6.18)
> psql (PostgreSQL) 8.1.8
>
> Sometimes when the driver throws an exception, it seems to lock up the whole
> machine. I run top on the console, and it stops. I have to reset it.
>
> The problem is non deterministic, it seems to take a few errors before it
> goes down.
>

This is not a postgresql problem.  Running as an unprivileged process
there's no way for postgresql to lock up a whole machine.  You need to
look at either the OS or the virtual machine it's running in.

Kris Jurka