Re: troubleshooting 8.1.2

On Tuesday July 11 2006 1:17 pm, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Ed L." <pgsql(at)bluepolka(dot)net> writes:
> > We have 4 8.1.2 cluster running on an HP-UX 11.23 Itanium,
> > repeatedly dying with the following log message:
> >
> > 2006-07-11 12:52:27 EDT [21582] LOG: received fast
> > shutdown request
>
> *Something* is sending SIGINT to the postmaster --- it's
> simply not possible to reach that elog call any other way.
>
> How are you launching the postmaster? If from a terminal
> window, are you sure it's entirely disconnected from the
> terminal's process group? If not, typing control-C in that
> window could SIGINT the postmaster.

We use a shell function to start the postmaster:

dbstart() {
pg_ctl start -D $PGDATA -m smart -o "-i -p $PGPORT" -p postmaster
}

We are wondering if our swap space was too small, and when the
swap reservation failed, the OS was sending SIGINT??

Ed