David Link <dlink(at)soundscan(dot)com> writes:
> The data in my column was bogus and not of the form 'DDMMYYYY'. Sorry
> Tom, my mistake. Actually, it was of the form YYYY and it was causing
> the query to blow up with:
> psql:show_title.sql:13: pqReadData() -- backend closed the channel
> unexpectedly.
This is a bug. What version are you using? Could you supply
an exact example of a value that makes it crash?
regards, tom lane