Re: is there any backend (server) timeout

On 5/27/02 4:18 PM, "Doug Fields" <dfields-pg-general(at)pexicom(dot)com> wrote:

>
>> server closed the connection unexpectedly
>> This probably means the server terminated abnormally
>> before or while processing the request.
>> The connection to the server was lost. Attempting reset: Failed.
>> You are currently not connected to a database.
>
> I had this happen to me the other day, when my server booted with only 1GB
> of RAM instead of the usual 2GB. PostgreSQL started thrashing something
> fierce since I give it 1.4GB of shared memory, and not too long after that
> I got that same message in a JDBC SQLException.
>
> That doesn't really help, but...
>
> Doug
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That's a pretty standard "PostgreSQL did something bad" message, so without
more information it's hard to know what happened... Can you replicate this
crash?

-Mitch