| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Clodoaldo Pinto Neto <clodoaldo_pinto(at)yahoo(dot)com(dot)br> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: pg_restore: error returned by PQputline |
| Date: | 2004-08-30 01:49:45 |
| Message-ID: | 18666.1093830585@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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=?iso-8859-1?q?Clodoaldo=20Pinto=20Neto?= <clodoaldo_pinto(at)yahoo(dot)com(dot)br> writes:
> --- Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> escreveu:
>> Look in the postmaster's log to see what happened.
> LOG: server process (PID 9576) was terminated by signal 9
Well, there's a smoking gun ...
Assuming that you didn't deliberately kill -9 your server process,
the only mechanism I've heard of that causes this is the Linux kernel's
out-of-memory killer --- see
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/kernel-resources.html#AEN17068
Googling for "OOM kill" will give you additional gory details :-(.
regards, tom lane
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