Dan Moschuk <dan(at)freebsd(dot)org> writes:
> | > Can someone tell me what a postmaster process exiting with status = 26
> | > means? FWIW, I'm doing a COPY table FROM stdin with about 14 million
> | > records to trigger this.
> |
> | That means it got a signal 26.
> Oh, sorry, for some reason I thought status = exit code.
Postgres doesn't use exit codes higher than 2, so I'm supposing that the
reported code must be a signal code.
> Signal 26 on FreeBSD is SIGVTARLM.
We don't ever set a virtual timer alarm, either. Is it possible that
you are running the postmaster with a ulimit-style limit on total
process runtime?
regards, tom lane