On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 11:16, David Stanaway wrote: > Why would the backend get a KILL signal like this? It was doing a > routine select ... into , or a copy ... to at the time. > > > 2005-09-19 09:52:46 [1511] LOG: server process (PID 19446) was > terminated by signal 9 > 2005-09-19 09:52:46 [1511] LOG: terminating any other active server > processes > 2005-09-19 09:52:46 [1712] WARNING: terminating connection because of > crash of another server process > 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. > HINT: In a moment you should be able to reconnect to the database and > repeat your command. > > > Debian 7.4.3 package > Version: 7.4.3-3 More than likely some system memory limit was hit and the linux OOM killer kicked in and started killing processes. Unfortunately, it tends to kill things using a lot memory to free up as much as possible. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org