Re: Database in recovery mode forever

From: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Cassiano, Marco" <mcassiano(at)manord(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Database in recovery mode forever
Date: 2009-05-20 03:15:31
Message-ID: dcc563d10905192015v26a697b6k295556a88ff0f5f5@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Cassiano, Marco <mcassiano(at)manord(dot)com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> this afternoon I had a database crash on a test system (The first Postgres
> crash in more than three years).
> I wasn't able to identify the reason.....the log doesn't say anything
> interesting.
> Is there way the exactly identify the reason of the crash ?
> 2009-05-19 16:04:18 CEST    0 4a092d56.1535 - LOG:  server process (PID
> 22298) was terminated by signal 9: Killed
> 2009-05-19 16:04:18 CEST    0 4a092d56.1535 - LOG:  terminating any other
> active server processes

Postgres doesn't issue kill -9s. Looks like the OOM killer got you.

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