On 6/18/07, developer@xxxxxxxxxxxx <developer@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
My database has shutdown several times in the last couple days. I have no idea why.
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LOG: server process (PID 501) was terminated by signal 9
If this is Linux, check the kernel log (typically /var/log/kern.log, or run dmesg) and look for lines like these, which indicate that the kernel forcibly killed the process: May 22 12:43:24 sultan kernel: [232933.420709] Out of Memory: Killed process 5345 (postgres). Alexander.
