On 6/18/07, developer(at)wexwarez(dot)com <developer(at)wexwarez(dot)com> wrote:
> My database has shutdown several times in the last couple days. I have no
> idea why.
[...]
> LOG: server process (PID 501) was terminated by signal 9
If this is Linux, check the kernel log (typically /var/log/kern.log,
or run dmesg) and look for lines like these, which indicate that the
kernel forcibly killed the process:
May 22 12:43:24 sultan kernel: [232933.420709] Out of Memory: Killed
process 5345 (postgres).
Alexander.