felix@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > I hate to post as vague a description as this, but I don't think the > devil is in the details this time. I may be wrong ... > > This project is running 7.3.2 on a RedHat 9 system. We plan to > upgrade in a few weeks to Fedora Core and Postgres 8, so maybe this > problem is not worth wasting too much time on, right now. > > This is a SOAP server, Apache with mod_perl, connecting to Postgres > via DBI/DBD::Pg. Sometimes it gets in a mood, for want of a better > term, where a specific SQL statement fails with the good ole message > "server closed the connection unexpectedly". It will fail like this This message is from the backend exiting abruptly. Is isn't an "ERROR" as we define it for logging purposes. That's why there is nothing in the logs. I recommend turning on log_statement which prints before the query is run. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq