Re: Mysterious Death of postmaster (-9)

On Sat, 13 Nov 2004, Gregory S. Williamson wrote:

> Looking in the logs I see:
> 2004-11-13 13:30:28 LOG: unexpected EOF on client connection
> 2004-11-13 13:30:40 LOG: unexpected EOF on client connection
> 2004-11-13 13:38:28 LOG: could not send data to client: Broken pipe
> 2004-11-13 13:42:15 LOG: server process (PID 30272) was terminated by signal 9
> 2004-11-13 13:42:16 LOG: terminating any other active server processes
> 2004-11-13 13:42:16 WARNING: terminating connection because of crash of another
> server process

> Just to rule out any internal chances, is there any way this shutdown
> could have been triggered from within postgres itself ? Can anyone
> construct any scenarios in which Linux, postgres or proxool could have
> done this without human intervention ?

Is it possible that you ran into the out of memory killer? That's the
most likely thing beyond admin intervention I can think of.