Hello everyone: I have a server running RedHat 7.1, Kern 2.4.21 and glibc ver 2.2.5. I have had a postgresql database on it for two years now without any problems. When I run vacuum verbose analyze it crashes and leaves me with the error: NOTICE : analyzing pg_type server closed connection unexpectedly. This probably means the backend terminated abnormally before or while processing the request. I've looked this up on the lists and found little that I think pertains to me. According to the lists my glibc library is past the version needed. My kernel is also up to par. What are my options here? I don't think I have a version problem but I did see a post about adjusting the shared_buffers. It doesn't make sense to me to change this since I didn't get a memory error. Vacuum has been working religiously for the past two years. Oh yeah, my version of postgres is 7.2. I did notice that "vacuum verbose users" works but "vacuum verbose analyze" doesn't. HELP! Thanks. ---------------------------(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