On Wednesday November 8 2006 12:30 pm, Shoaib Mir wrote: > To be specific you need to look at the syslogs to see if it > was actually some OOM killer or not. I checked all db logs + syslog, of course. All they show is the process receiving SIGKILL (followed by all others being shutdown as a result). Is there any circumstance at all under which pgsql itself would issue a sigkill to one of the backends? Ed