Re: Abnormal Exit Quandary

No. I dump the database every night, but this problem has happened
twice in the afternoon around 3:00 PM. There's nothing special running
at that time. I'll respond to Tom and hopefully provide some more
detail about my case. Thanks for the response.

On May 24, 2004, at 9:19 PM, Mike G wrote:

> Is it crashing around the time a pg_dump is executed? There is a
> similar problem with 7.4.1 on cygwin / windows.
>
> There were some patches for this applied to 7.4.2 if that is the case.
>
> On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 04:25:30PM -0500, Joe Lester wrote:
>> I'm getting this message on Postgres 7.4.1 (Mac OS 10.3)
>>
>> 2004-05-24 15:20:15 WARNING: terminating connection because of crash
>> of another server process
>> DETAIL: The postmaster has commanded this server process to roll back
>> the current transaction and exit, because another server process
>> exited
>> abnormally and possibly corrupted shared memory.
>> HINT: In a moment you should be able to reconnect to the database and
>> repeat your command.
>>
>> This message repeats itself for each back-end that shuts down.
>>
>> This is the second time in two days I've got this message in my log.
>> The server has been running fine for about 5 months straight up until
>> now. The load on the server has increased somewhat in the last few
>> days, not in the number of back-end processes, but in the number of
>> SELECTs each back-end performs.
>>
>> Can someone give me any pointers on what troubleshooting steps I can
>> take to get my system stable again?
>>
>>
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