"G. Anthony Reina" <reina(at)nsi(dot)edu> writes:
> I've been getting a strange error from the vacuum command. When I try
> 'vacuum verbose analyze' the vacuum goes through the tables fine until
> just after finishing one particular table. Then I get the error:
> NOTICE: AbortTransaction and not in in-progress state
> pqReadData() -- backend closed the channel unexpectedly.
Interesting. Is there any additional message appearing in the
postmaster log? Is a core file being generated? (look in the
data/base/ subdirectory for the database in question) If there
is a corefile, a debugger backtrace from it would be helpful.
regards, tom lane