Re: pqReadData() -- backend closed the channel unexpectedly

Thanks for the quick response!

Here they are, but they seem as vague as the Apache error logs -to me anyway...

FindExec: found "/usr/bin/postgres" using argv[0]
/usr/bin/postmaster: BackendStartup: pid 886 user nobody db rzone socket 4
FindExec: found "/usr/bin/postgres" using argv[0]
started: host=localhost user=nobody database=rzone
InitPostgres
reset_client_encoding()..
reset_client_encoding() done.
StartTransactionCommand
ProcessQuery
CommitTransactionCommand
StartTransactionCommand
ProcessUtility
CommitTransactionCommand
StartTransactionCommand
ProcessQuery
CommitTransactionCommand
/usr/bin/postmaster: BackendStartup: pid 887 user nobody db rzone socket 4
FindExec: found "/usr/bin/postgres" using argv[0]
started: host=localhost user=nobody database=rzone
InitPostgres
reset_client_encoding()..
reset_client_encoding() done.
StartTransactionCommand
ProcessQuery
CommitTransactionCommand
StartTransactionCommand
ProcessUtility
CommitTransactionCommand
StartTransactionCommand
ProcessQuery
CommitTransactionCommand
/usr/bin/postmaster: BackendStartup: pid 888 user nobody db rzone socket 4
FindExec: found "/usr/bin/postgres" using argv[0]
started: host=localhost user=nobody database=rzone
InitPostgres
reset_client_encoding()..
reset_client_encoding() done.
StartTransactionCommand
ProcessQuery
CommitTransactionCommand
StartTransactionCommand
ProcessUtility
CommitTransactionCommand
StartTransactionCommand
ProcessQuery
CommitTransactionCommand
/usr/bin/postmaster: BackendStartup: pid 889 user nobody db rzone socket 4
FindExec: found "/usr/bin/postgres" using argv[0]
started: host=localhost user=nobody database=rzone
InitPostgres
reset_client_encoding()..
reset_client_encoding() done.
StartTransactionCommand
ProcessQuery
CommitTransactionCommand
StartTransactionCommand
ProcessUtility
CommitTransactionCommand
StartTransactionCommand
ProcessQuery
CommitTransactionCommand
/usr/bin/postmaster: BackendStartup: pid 890 user nobody db rzone socket 4
FindExec: found "/usr/bin/postgres" using argv[0]
started: host=localhost user=nobody database=rzone
InitPostgres
reset_client_encoding()..
reset_client_encoding() done.
StartTransactionCommand
ProcessQuery
CommitTransactionCommand
StartTransactionCommand
ProcessUtility
CommitTransactionCommand
StartTransactionCommand
ProcessQuery
CommitTransactionCommand
StartTransactionCommand
ProcessQuery
CommitTransactionCommand
StartTransactionCommand
ProcessQuery
CommitTransactionCommand
StartTransactionCommand
ProcessQuery
CommitTransactionCommand
StartTransactionCommand
ProcessQuery
CommitTransactionCommand
StartTransactionCommand
ProcessQuery
/usr/bin/postmaster: reaping dead processes...
/usr/bin/postmaster: CleanupProc: pid 888 exited with status 139
/usr/bin/postmaster: CleanupProc: sending SIGUSR1 to process 890
/usr/bin/postmaster: CleanupProc: sending SIGUSR1 to process 889
/usr/bin/postmaster: CleanupProc: sending SIGUSR1 to process 887
NOTICE: Message from PostgreSQL backend:
The Postmaster has informed me that some other backend died abnormally and
possibly corrupted shared memory.
I have rolled back the current transaction and am going to terminate your
database system connection and exit.
Please reconnect to the database system and repeat your query.
NOTICE: Message from PostgreSQL backend:
The Postmaster has informed me that some other backend died abnormally and
possibly corrupted shared memory.
I have rolled back the current transaction and am going to terminate your
database system connection and exit.
Please reconnect to the database system and repeat your query.
/usr/bin/postmaster: CleanupProc: sending SIGUSR1 to process 886
NOTICE: Message from PostgreSQL backend:
The Postmaster has informed me that some other backend died abnormally and
possibly corrupted shared memory.
I have rolled back the current transaction and am going to terminate your
database system connection and exit.
Please reconnect to the database system and repeat your query.
/usr/bin/postmaster: CleanupProc: reinitializing shared memory and semaphores
shmem_exit(0) [#0]
NOTICE: Message from PostgreSQL backend:
The Postmaster has informed me that some other backend died abnormally and
possibly corrupted shared memory.
I have rolled back the current transaction and am going to terminate your
database system connection and exit.
Please reconnect to the database system and repeat your query.
/usr/bin/postmaster: CleanupProc: pid 890 exited with status 0
/usr/bin/postmaster: CleanupProc: pid 889 exited with status 0
/usr/bin/postmaster: CleanupProc: pid 887 exited with status 0
/usr/bin/postmaster: CleanupProc: pid 886 exited with status 0
/usr/bin/postmaster: reaping dead processes...
/usr/bin/postmaster: BackendStartup: pid 901 user nobody db rzone socket 4
FindExec: found "/usr/bin/postgres" using argv[0]
started: host=localhost user=nobody database=rzone
InitPostgres
reset_client_encoding()..
reset_client_encoding() done.
StartTransactionCommand
ProcessUtility
CommitTransactionCommand
StartTransactionCommand
ProcessQuery
/usr/bin/postmaster: reaping dead processes...
/usr/bin/postmaster: CleanupProc: pid 901 exited with status 139
/usr/bin/postmaster: CleanupProc: reinitializing shared memory and semaphores
shmem_exit(0) [#0]

Stephan Szabo wrote:
> Best bet is to start by getting the end of the postmaster logs. That'll
> probably have more information about immediate causes.

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