On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 8:11 AM, Aaron Bono <postgresql@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Our database was going along just fine this morning when, out of the blue, > we started getting the following errors: > > FATAL: the database system is in recovery mode > > We are using PostgreSQL 8.1.3 on CentOS. I was the only person on the > machine and had recently started a small batch that had just finished > querying and updating the database. This batch runs constantly and has not > been changed in months. > > What are the things that could be causing this? I'm not saying it definitely is the problem, but you are missing 2 years of updates. 8.1.11 came out just last month, 8.1.3 came out 2 years ago. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly