Tony Webb <amw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I have a 8.3 cluster running under VM. It seems fine for most activities > (a bit slow but error free) but if the developer issues a delete > statement it consistently kills the database. >>> 2009-06-25 03:34:26 BST LOG: 00000: server process (PID 8379) was >>> terminated by signal 9: Killed Something is issuing kill -9 against random Postgres processes. If you didn't do it yourself, the odds are about 100% that it was the Linux kernel's "OOM kill" mechanism, which is best disabled on any server box. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/kernel-resources.html#AEN22235 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
