On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 8:11 AM, Aaron Bono <postgresql@aranya.com> wrote:
> Our database was going along just fine this morning when, out of the blue,
> we started getting the following errors:
>
> FATAL: the database system is in recovery mode
>
> We are using PostgreSQL 8.1.3 on CentOS. I was the only person on the
> machine and had recently started a small batch that had just finished
> querying and updating the database. This batch runs constantly and has not
> been changed in months.
>
> What are the things that could be causing this?
I'm not saying it definitely is the problem, but you are missing 2
years of updates. 8.1.11 came out just last month, 8.1.3 came out 2
years ago.