Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 03:03:09PM +0100, Richard Huxton wrote: >>> What would be sending SIGTERM to a backend? > >> The only other thing I've ever heard of is some systems do a sigterm >> when you pass a quota limit? > > Could be. The actual standard use of SIGTERM is to kill processes > belonging to your terminal process group when you log out. So, for > example, manually starting the postmaster from a terminal window and > then closing that window could cause this to happen. I thought that was SIGHUP? -Doug
