Re: postmaster going down own its on

From: Douglas McNaught <doug(at)mcnaught(dot)org>
To: Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>
Cc: "surabhi(dot)ahuja" <surabhi(dot)ahuja(at)iiitb(dot)ac(dot)in>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: postmaster going down own its on
Date: 2006-04-07 13:52:42
Message-ID: 87irpl332t.fsf@suzuka.mcnaught.org
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Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com> writes:

> surabhi.ahuja wrote:
>> hi, is it possible for postmaster to go doen on its own?
>> all what the logs say is FATAL: terminating connection dur to
>> administrator's command.
>
> Someone or something is issuing a kill command. It couldn't be the
> infamous Linux out-of-memory handler, could it? Check your system logs
> for details.

I'm not sure it's that--the OOM killer uses SIGKILL which would take
down the server before it could write that log entry.

-Doug

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