From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tue 1/24/2006 8:22 PM
To: Richard Huxton
Cc: surabhi.ahuja; pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] FATAL: terminating connection due to administrator command
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Richard Huxton
<dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> surabhi.ahuja wrote:
>> so
does this mean that someone is trying to stop postmaster by
>> sending
it a kill signal?
> Someone or something. It can be Linux's
out-of-memory facility picking
> processes to kill. Google "oom killer"
for discussion.
No, because the OOM killer invariably uses "kill
-9". "Fast shutdown"
means that something sent the postmaster a
SIGINT.
If you launch the postmaster manually and are not careful to make
it
dissociate from your terminal, then typing ^C at some unrelated
program
later would be enough to make this happen ...
>> 1. many
times i have seen two instances of postmaster running. how
>> does that
happen and how to prevent it from happening?
> Shouldn't (unless you
have two installations of course).
Perhaps he's not understanding the
difference between the postmaster and
its child processes? I don't
believe he's actually got two postmasters
running (unless maybe in separate
directories with separate ports, which
is hardly likely to be a setup one
would create by accident). There are
*very* extensive safety interlocks
in place to prevent that.
regards, tom
lane
