Finally, here are the log messages at the moment of the error. It is clearly not while building indices. The table in question is a big one, 111GB. Fields latitude, longitude and height are arrays of length around 500- 700 on each row (double and real). So, what does this mean? Was it the client that aborted? I think I saw that "unexpected message type 0x58" on other types of interruptions. Jul 13 20:10:10 ema postgres[97889]: [867-1] LOG: statement: COPY positioned_scan (id_dataset, id_acquired_set, sequence_number, id_scan_dataset, latitude, longitude, height, srid, srid_vertical) FROM stdin; Jul 13 20:10:10 ema postgres[97889]: [867-2] Jul 13 21:08:06 ema postgres[97889]: [868-1] ERROR: unexpected message type 0x58 during COPY from stdin Jul 13 21:08:06 ema postgres[97889]: [868-2] CONTEXT: COPY positioned_scan, line 2779323 Jul 13 21:08:06 ema postgres[97889]: [868-3] STATEMENT: COPY positioned_scan (id_dataset, id_acquired_set, sequence_number, id_scan_dataset, latitude, longitude, height, srid, srid_vertical) FROM stdin; Jul 13 21:08:06 ema postgres[97889]: [868-4] Jul 13 21:08:06 ema postgres[97889]: [869-1] LOG: could not send data to client: Broken pipe Jul 13 21:08:06 ema postgres[97889]: [869-2] STATEMENT: COPY positioned_scan (id_dataset, id_acquired_set, sequence_number, id_scan_dataset, latitude, longitude, height, srid, srid_vertical) FROM stdin; Jul 13 21:08:06 ema postgres[97889]: [869-3] Jul 13 21:08:06 ema postgres[97889]: [870-1] LOG: unexpected EOF on client connection Thanks, -- Miguel A Ter, 12-07-2016 às 15:10 -0400, Tom Lane escreveu: > Miguel Ramos <org.postgresql@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > This because I have the impression that it is during index > > creation, > > where I think client role would be minimal. > > Hard to believe really, given the spelling of the message. But > anyway, > be sure you do the run with log_statement = all so that it's clear > what > is being worked on when the error happens. > > 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