Re: unexpected shutdown

From: "Alexander Staubo" <alex(at)purefiction(dot)net>
To: "developer(at)wexwarez(dot)com" <developer(at)wexwarez(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: unexpected shutdown
Date: 2007-06-18 20:26:16
Message-ID: 88daf38c0706181326k2c59ef9dw1a2acd3f3c8853a0@mail.gmail.com
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On 6/18/07, developer(at)wexwarez(dot)com <developer(at)wexwarez(dot)com> wrote:
> My database has shutdown several times in the last couple days. I have no
> idea why.
[...]
> LOG: server process (PID 501) was terminated by signal 9

If this is Linux, check the kernel log (typically /var/log/kern.log,
or run dmesg) and look for lines like these, which indicate that the
kernel forcibly killed the process:

May 22 12:43:24 sultan kernel: [232933.420709] Out of Memory: Killed
process 5345 (postgres).

Alexander.

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