Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Unless it does. That is the point of the questions, getting to what is > actually causing the issue. Until the problem can be boiled down to a > reproducible test case there really is not much hope of anything more > then the the 'yes you have a problem' answer. IIUC, the crashes are not reproducible for the OP either. I hesitate to suggest "maybe the hardware is flaky" because that seems like passing the buck. Still, from the info we have the table definitions are extremely simple and so are the queries, making it hard to believe that some rare Postgres bug is being tripped over. It makes no sense to be seeing this level of instability in mainstream usage on a stable OS and stable Postgres release. So I'm starting to think that a hardware problem might be the most plausible explanation. In any case, there is no information we have that suggests any plausible line of investigation towards a software problem. If we can see a crash stack trace or two, maybe that would change. regards, tom lane