I looked in the log again and sure enough I missed this immediately before the WARNINGS: PANIC: link from /data/database/pg_xlog/00000001000000D9 to /data/database/pg_xlog/00000001000000E1 (initialization of log file 1, segment 225) failed: No such file or directory LOG: server process (pid 5748) was terminated by signal 6 LOG: terminating any other active server processes Looks like a file system problem right? Medora > > > WARNING: Message from PostgreSQL backend: > > The Postmaster has informed me that some other backend > > died abnormally and possibly corrupted shared memory. > > This is bad, but it's unrelated to the other message, and you didn't > show us the message that it *is* related to. > > regards, tom lane