Hi everyone, Have you seen PostgreSQL terminated abnormally with "signal 66" ? I'm using PostgreSQL 8.1.4 on Windows XP SP2. autovacuum process aborted with "signal 66", and "startup process" aborted also. ----- 2008-01-18 10:04:56 892 LOCATION: AutoVacMain, autovacuum.c:412 2008-01-18 10:05:56 3808 LOG: 00000: autovacuum process (PID 1160) was terminated by signal 66 2008-01-18 10:05:56 3808 LOCATION: LogChildExit, postmaster.c:2436 2008-01-18 10:05:56 3808 LOG: 00000: terminating any other active server processes 2008-01-18 10:05:56 3808 LOCATION: HandleChildCrash, postmaster.c:2317 2008-01-18 10:05:56 2152 WARNING: 57P02: terminating connection because of crash of another server process 2008-01-18 10:05:56 2152 DETAIL: The postmaster has commanded this server process to roll back the current transaction and exit, because another server process exited abnormally and possibly corrupted shared memory. 2008-01-18 10:05:56 2152 HINT: In a moment you should be able to reconnect to the database and repeat your command. 2008-01-18 10:05:56 2152 LOCATION: quickdie, postgres.c:2105 2008-01-18 10:05:56 2436 WARNING: 57P02: terminating connection because of crash of another server process 2008-01-18 10:05:56 2436 DETAIL: The postmaster has commanded this server process to roll back the current transaction and exit, because another server process exited abnormally and possibly corrupted shared memory. 2008-01-18 10:05:56 2436 HINT: In a moment you should be able to reconnect to the database and repeat your command. 2008-01-18 10:05:56 2436 LOCATION: quickdie, postgres.c:2105 2008-01-18 10:05:56 2536 WARNING: 57P02: terminating connection because of crash of another server process 2008-01-18 10:05:56 2536 DETAIL: The postmaster has commanded this server process to roll back the current transaction and exit, because another server process exited abnormally and possibly corrupted shared memory. 2008-01-18 10:05:56 2536 HINT: In a moment you should be able to reconnect to the database and repeat your command. 2008-01-18 10:05:56 2536 LOCATION: quickdie, postgres.c:2105 2008-01-18 10:05:57 3808 LOG: 00000: all server processes terminated; reinitializing 2008-01-18 10:05:57 3808 LOCATION: reaper, postmaster.c:2217 2008-01-18 10:05:57 3808 LOG: 00000: startup process (PID 3668) was terminated by signal 66 2008-01-18 10:05:57 3808 LOCATION: LogChildExit, postmaster.c:2436 2008-01-18 10:05:57 3808 LOG: 00000: aborting startup due to startup process failure 2008-01-18 10:05:57 3808 LOCATION: reaper, postmaster.c:2062 2008-01-18 10:05:57 1336 LOG: 00000: logger shutting down 2008-01-18 10:05:57 1336 LOCATION: SysLoggerMain, syslogger.c:361 ----- This trouble does not occur after this. Do you know meaning of "signal 66" ? Thanks ----- Akio Iwaasa (NEC Soft, Ltd.) mail : iwaasa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx URL : http://www.necsoft.com/eng/index.html ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match