Ah... no I didn't know that - that would explain all the other behaviour then!! Good to know. Alex On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > "Alex Turner" <armtuk@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > ... I found what was going on in that bit and fixed it so > > > it's not crashing anymore, I'm just worried about how on earth that > > could have affected other back end processes that were querying > > unrelated databases. > > You do know that a crash in any backend prompts the postmaster to > restart the whole database cluster? I've forgotten the start of this > thread, but what you say here sounds like expected behavior. > > regards, tom lane > -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general