Re: postgresql-9.0 Windows service stops after database transaction

Hi again Thom

Just a quick update regarding my previous reply to you. I managed to do a
deeper uninstall of Postgresql 8.3 with these following steps.

* Remove the Registry entries.
(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PostgreSQL\Installations\postgresql-8.3) and
(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PostgreSQL\Services\postgresql-8.3)
* Remove the postgresql-8.3 service. (sc delete postgresql-8.3)

This didn't fix the problem although the 8.3 service is now no longer
present in Windows Services nor in pgAdmin. Below is the complete log
output when the original error occurs and the 9.0 service is shut down.
All I did was delete the content of a table and this is what happens.

2010-09-27 09:52:48 EST LOG: unexpected EOF on client connection
2010-09-27 09:53:05 EST LOG: unexpected EOF on client connection
2010-09-27 09:53:19 EST LOG: server process (PID 2564) was terminated by
exception 0xC0000005
2010-09-27 09:53:19 EST HINT: See C include file "ntstatus.h" for a
description of the hexadecimal value.
2010-09-27 09:53:19 EST LOG: terminating any other active server
processes
2010-09-27 09:53:19 EST WARNING: terminating connection because of crash
of another server process
2010-09-27 09:53:19 EST DETAIL: The postmaster has commanded this server
process to roll back the current transaction and exit, because another
server process exited abnormally and possibly corrupted shared memory.
2010-09-27 09:53:19 EST HINT: In a moment you should be able to reconnect
to the database and repeat your command.
2010-09-27 09:53:19 EST WARNING: terminating connection because of crash
of another server process
2010-09-27 09:53:19 EST DETAIL: The postmaster has commanded this server
process to roll back the current transaction and exit, because another
server process exited abnormally and possibly corrupted shared memory.
2010-09-27 09:53:19 EST HINT: In a moment you should be able to reconnect
to the database and repeat your command.
2010-09-27 09:53:19 EST WARNING: terminating connection because of crash
of another server process
2010-09-27 09:53:19 EST DETAIL: The postmaster has commanded this server
process to roll back the current transaction and exit, because another
server process exited abnormally and possibly corrupted shared memory.
2010-09-27 09:53:19 EST HINT: In a moment you should be able to reconnect
to the database and repeat your command.
2010-09-27 09:53:19 EST LOG: all server processes terminated;
reinitializing
2010-09-27 09:53:29 EST FATAL: pre-existing shared memory block is still
in use
2010-09-27 09:53:29 EST HINT: Check if there are any old server processes
still running, and terminate them.

Thanks again.

Cheers

Adrian

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From: Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com>
To: adrian(dot)kitchingman(at)dse(dot)vic(dot)gov(dot)au
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Date: 24/09/2010 05:05 PM
Subject: Re: [PERFORM] postgresql-9.0 Windows service stops after
database transaction

On 24 September 2010 05:39, <adrian(dot)kitchingman(at)dse(dot)vic(dot)gov(dot)au> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I've have a strange problem with my Windows postgresql-9.0 service
stopping
> after any transaction which manipulates tables in any database (Deleting
> records, Inserting records, bulk importing via \copy, etc). This problem
> occurs regardless whether I'm accessing the database server via pgAdmin
III
> on a client machine or the server itself as well as through the command
> prompt. The end result it that I have to constantly restart the
postgresql
> service after any transactions. Sometime there is a slight delay
allowing a
> couple of transactions but the service is always eventually stopped.
>
> The problem appears to have started when I changed permissions on my
machine
> to allow the user 'postgres' access to the C drive following the
> instructions in the last post of this thread:
> http://www.jitterbit.com/PhpBB/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=869
>
> The specs of postres environment are:
>
> Windows XP SP3
> PostgreSQL 9.0.0, compiled by Visual C++ build 1500, 32-bit
> pgAdmin III 1.12.0 (Sep17 2010, rev: REL-1_12_0)
> PostGIS 2.0SVN
>
> Hope someone can shed some light on this issue.

What appears in the logs?

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