Re: PosgreSQL backend process crashed with signal 9

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Pavel Suderevsky <psuderevsky(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org, Aleksey Romanov <drednout(dot)by(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: PosgreSQL backend process crashed with signal 9
Date: 2016-04-06 14:46:53
Message-ID: 30504.1459954013@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Pavel Suderevsky <psuderevsky(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> I've faced similar behaviour in much more simple situation. It crashed on
> simple nested loop. And all other child postmaster processes were
> terminated likewise.

>> 2016-04-05 18:37:31 MSK LOG: server process (PID 2848) was terminated by
>> signal 9: Killed

Well, signal 9 is not an internal-to-Postgres error; that's something
outside the database killing the process. If you're on a Linux machine
it's most likely the dreaded OOM killer doing it. The usual
recommendation is to configure your system to reduce or eliminate
memory overcommit:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static/kernel-resources.html#LINUX-MEMORY-OVERCOMMIT

The OP's log did not indicate a signal 9, though --- that was SIGSEGV
(sig 11, typically).

regards, tom lane

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