Re: postgresql-9.0 Windows service stops after database transaction

Hi Thom

Thanks for the reply and the log seems to have shed some light. Looks like
I have my old postgres 8.3 service still running concurrently which is
interfering with the new 9.0 service. This is the message that comes up a
lot in the log.

2010-09-24 15:39:34 EST LOG: unexpected EOF on client connection
2010-09-24 15:39:37 EST LOG: unexpected EOF on client connection
2010-09-24 15:39:37 EST LOG: unexpected EOF on client connection
2010-09-24 15:40:07 EST LOG: server process (PID 3724) was terminated by
exception 0xC0000005
2010-09-24 15:40:07 EST HINT: See C include file "ntstatus.h" for a
description of the hexadecimal value.
2010-09-24 15:40:07 EST LOG: terminating any other active server
processes
2010-09-24 15:40:07 EST WARNING: terminating connection because of crash
of another server process
2010-09-24 15:40:07 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.
2010-09-24 15:40:07 EST HINT: In a moment you should be able to reconnect
to the database and repeat your command.

It's a bit strange though because I did do an uninstall of the postgres
8.3 before installing the 9.0. The 8.3 service is still present in Windows
Services but I've disabled with with no effect on the problem. I notice it
still is also listed as a separate server in pgAdmin but when it's
activated it refers to the 9.0 databases. I'm guessing that I have to do a
deeper uninstall of the 8.3 service. Do you have any pointers on how to go
about this?

Cheers

Adrian

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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