If I do: SELECT St_Buffer('0101000020E8640000000000000000F8FF000000000000F8FF', 50); the PostgreSQL process leaves with: server closed the connection unexpectedly This probably means the server terminated abnormally before or while processing the request. The connection to the server was lost. Attempting reset: Failed. The geometry looks like: POINT(nan nan) Regards, Peter Hopfgartner R3 GIS Srl - GmbH http://www.r3-gis.com --------Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote-------- Subject: Re: Getting FATAL: terminating connection due to administrator command Date: 15.09.2010 21:34 >"Joshua J. Kugler" <joshua@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> On Wednesday 15 September 2010, Peter Hopfgartner elucidated thus: >>> The server is a rather bare bone server for web mapping, so basically >>> PostgreSQL/PostGIS, Apache, PHP, Tomcat and little other stuff. The >>> Dell software was the only which did not come from >>> CentOS/EPEL/argeo/in-house RPM packages. I've removed the Dell stuff >>> completely, but the problem is still there. > >> Are you running out of memory and getting killed by the OOM killer? > >The OOM killer hits its victims with SIGKILL (kill -9), so we can rule >that out as not matching Peter's symptoms. This is definitely an >unwanted SIGTERM not SIGKILL. > > regards, tom lane > -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general