Database in recovery mode

Okay. I've narrowed it down just a little more.

If I start up postgres and run the query that caused it to crash
before, it will crash again iff it is the first query I run.

Even the slightest change in that query seems to stop it from
crashing. The original query was and should have returned:
equipment=> SELECT
year,manufacturer,model,stocknumber,quantity,realprice,province,countr
y,id,pricecurrency FROM ad_trucks AS AD WHERE active='t' AND cat1=9
AND cat2=4576 AND UPPER(manufacturer) LIKE '%KENWORTH%' AND year
BETWEEN 1997 AND 2000;
year | manufacturer | model | stocknumber | quantity |
realprice | province | country | id | pricecurrency
------+--------------+---------------+-------------+----------+-------
----+----------+---------+-------+---------------
1998 | Kenworth | T2000 | | 1
| | Manitoba | Canada | 31990 | CAD
1999 | Kenworth | W900B | | 1
| | Manitoba | Canada | 31991 | CAD
1998 | Kenworth | W-900 Damaged | | 1
| | Missouri | USA | 16535 | USD
1998 | Kenworth | W900L | 755934 | 1
| | Indiana | USA | 16496 | USD
1997 | Kenworth | W900L | 742184 | 1
| | Indiana | USA | 23936 | USD
1997 | Kenworth | T600 | | 1
| | Manitoba | Canada | 31989 | CAD
1997 | Kenworth | T600 | #050520-97 | 1 |
47500.00 | Quebec | Canada | 32675 | USD
1999 | Kenworth | T600 | 99130 | 1 |
79500.00 | Ontario | Canada | 32829 | CAD
1998 | Kenworth | W900L | 758000 | 1
| | Indiana | USA | 22370 | USD
1997 | Kenworth | W900L | #170420 | 3
| | Quebec | Canada | 32215 | USD
1997 | Kenworth | T800 | #01502-15 | 5 |
34500.00 | Quebec | Canada | 24482 | USD
1997 | Kenworth | W900L | 2-00-54/56 | 2 |
51950.00 | Ontario | Canada | 32620 | USD
1997 | Kenworth | W900L | fmdc | 1
| | Ontario | Canada | 31932 | CAD
2000 | Kenworth | T800 | | 1
| | Texas | USA | 33111 | USD
(14 rows)

If I replace the column list with a *, it runs fine. Any number of
times I run it within that session of pgsql the original query runs
fine.

Here is the query with a fresh postgres:
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/psql -U equipment
Welcome to psql, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.

Type: \copyright for distribution terms
\h for help with SQL commands
\? for help on internal slash commands
\g or terminate with semicolon to execute query
\q to quit

equipment=> SELECT
year,manufacturer,model,stocknumber,quantity,realprice,province,countr
y,id,pricecurrency FROM ad_trucks AS AD WHERE active='t' AND cat1=9
AND cat2=4576 AND UPPER(manufacturer) LIKE '%KENWORTH%' AND year
BETWEEN 1997 AND 2000;
pqReadData() -- backend closed the channel unexpectedly.
This probably means the backend terminated abnormally
before or while processing the request.
The connection to the server was lost. Attempting reset: Failed.
!>

Poof! It explodes.

Running a:
Select * from ad_trucks; before running the query causes the query to
succeed.

Having found that... I don't know where to go from here...

-Michael
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