Frank Miles <fpm(at)u(dot)washington(dot)edu> writes:
> query: delete from units where unit_id = 5;
> ProcessQuery
> /opt/pgsql/bin/postmaster: reaping dead processes...
> /opt/pgsql/bin/postmaster: CleanupProc: pid 21004 exited with status 139
> Server process (pid 21004) exited with status 139 at Tue Nov 7 11:04:56 2000
There should be a core file left over from the backend crash in the
subdirectory for the database. Can you provide a debugger backtrace
from the corefile?
regards, tom lane