On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 23:37 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > I'm wondering if the reindexdb is being run under a restrictive ulimit > setting, or something else that would prevent it from just sitting and > waiting. I checked... there's no limits defined in /etc/security/limits.conf. There's more weirdness here: on the same machine, one day, everything runs through fine. Another day, one or two DBs are reindexed and vacuumed properly, then all successive tries fail with the mentioned SIGPIPE error. I'll have STDOUT and STDERR redirected to a file before the call of reindexdb now. Perhaps there's something in the console output that helps. > Is there anything in the kernel log at the time of the failure report? Don't see anything except postgresql messages at that time in /var/log/messages, and nothing at all in /var/log/secure. Regards, Torsten
