"Jeffrey W. Baker" <jwbaker@acm.org> writes: > Oh sure, it's bleating. Apparently my computer is too fast: I don't think the checkpoint process is completing. > May 12 16:37:08 mistral postgres[506]: [174-1] LOG: server process (PID 16403) was terminated by signal 6 You need to find out why these aborts (presumably Assert failures) are occurring. Having just looked at the source code, I see that Assert messages are never sent to syslog only to stderr. So you'll want to set things up to capture the postmaster's stderr instead of discarding it. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match