postmaster dies on EOF?

Hello,

i really don't know if this is already known issue, unfortunatelly i
was unable to find any relevant information on the web. The problem is
very simple, and doesn not seem to be too important, i really amn't sure
whether i should report it with the tool...

one day i decided to switch password authetntication in pg_hba.conf
for local tcp/unix connection as well, ran psql and saw 'Password:' for
the first time :-) But, when i pressed ^D in answer it showed many
lines with 'Password:' at the begining and then postmaster died. I
wondered much being unable to find postmaster amongst the list of
processes... it looked like:

cyxob [12] $ psql -h localhost template1
Password:^D
Password:
Password:
Password:
Password:
Password:
Password:
Password:
Password:
Password:
Password:
Password:
Password:
Password:
Password:
Password:
Password:
Password:
Password:
Password:
Password:
Password:
Password:
Password:
Password:
Password:
Password:
Password:
Password:
Password:
Password:
Password:
Password:
Password:
Password:
Password:
Password:
Password:
Password:
Password:
Password:
Password:
Password:
Password:
Password:
Password:
Password:
Password:
Password:
Password:
Password:
Password:
Password:
Password:
Password:
Password:
Password:
Password:
psql: pqReadData() -- backend closed the channel unexpectedly.
This probably means the backend terminated abnormally
before or while processing the request.

Later, when i ran it with no -S and with -s 10 flag and looked at its
output, it seemed to permorm read/write op on fdescriptor, and file
descriptor number were increasing up to 63 (well, my ulimit on number
of open files seems to be 64). it looked like:

FindExec: found "/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres" using argv[0]
binding ShmemCreate(key=52e2c1, size=1104896)
DEBUG: Data Base System is starting up at Wed Oct 18 10:13:10 2000
DEBUG: Data Base System was interrupted being in production at Wed Oct 18 10:11:45 2000
DEBUG: Data Base System is in production state at Wed Oct 18 10:13:10 2000
proc_exit(0)
shmem_exit(0)
exit(0)
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster: reaping dead processes...
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster: ServerLoop: handling reading 5
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster: ServerLoop: handling reading 5
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster: ServerLoop: handling writing 5
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster: ServerLoop: handling reading 6
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster: ServerLoop: handling reading 6
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster: ServerLoop: handling writing 6
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster: ServerLoop: handling reading 7
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster: ServerLoop: handling reading 7
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster: ServerLoop: handling writing 7
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster: ServerLoop: handling reading 8
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster: ServerLoop: handling reading 8
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster: ServerLoop: handling writing 8
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster: ServerLoop: handling reading 9
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster: ServerLoop: handling reading 9
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster: ServerLoop: handling writing 9
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster: ServerLoop: handling reading 10
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster: ServerLoop: handling reading 10
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster: ServerLoop: handling writing 10
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster: ServerLoop: handling reading 11
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster: ServerLoop: handling reading 11
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster: ServerLoop: handling writing 11
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster: ServerLoop: handling reading 12
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster: ServerLoop: handling reading 12
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster: ServerLoop: handling writing 12
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster: ServerLoop: handling reading 13
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster: ServerLoop: handling reading 13
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster: ServerLoop: handling writing 13
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster: ServerLoop: handling reading 14
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/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster: ServerLoop: handling writing 14
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster: ServerLoop: handling reading 15
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster: ServerLoop: handling reading 15
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster: ServerLoop: handling writing 15
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FATAL 1: ReleaseLruFile: No open files available to be closed
proc_exit(0)
shmem_exit(0)
exit(0)

i'm running:

pgsql [30] $ psql -c 'select version();' template1
version
---------------------------------------------------------------------
PostgreSQL 7.0.2 on i386-unknown-openbsd2.6, compiled by gcc 2.95.1
(1 row)
pgsql [31] $

configuration options were:

./configure \
--with-tcl \
--prefix=/usr/local/pgsql \
--with-template=openbsd \
--with-includes=/usr/local/include \
--with-libraries=/usr/local/lib \
--with-tkconfig=/usr/local/lib/tk8.0

Thanks!

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Denis A. Doroshenko -- VAS/IN group engineer
[Address: Omnitel Ltd., T.Sevcenkos 25, Vilnius 2600, Lithuania]
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