Re: [SQL] PostgreSQL server terminated by signal 11

From: Jeff Frost <jeff(at)frostconsultingllc(dot)com>
To: Daniel Caune <daniel(dot)caune(at)ubisoft(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [SQL] PostgreSQL server terminated by signal 11
Date: 2006-07-27 16:07:08
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.64.0607270904450.11632@discord.home.frostconsultingllc.com
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On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Daniel Caune wrote:

> My PostgreSQL server running on a Linux machine is terminated by signal
> 11 whenever I try to create some indexes on a table, which contains
> quite a lot of data. However I succeeded in creating some other indexes
> without having the PostgreSQL server terminated:

Daniel,

I would guess this is more appropriate for the -admin list so I cc'd it.

I think you are most likely running out of memory or running up against a
ulimit on memory. I would first check my ulimit settings on the postgres user
and see if they are a bit small.

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