Laurette Cisneros <laurette(at)nextbus(dot)com> writes:
> Any idea what status 139 indicates?
SIGSEGV core dump, on most systems. Look for the backend core file
(in $PGDATA/base/yourdb/core) and send us a gdb stack trace ...
also, it would help to know what PG version you are running, on
what platform, and what you were doing when the crash happened.
regards, tom lane