On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Greg Sabino Mullane<greg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > A server crash is a pretty rare event in the Postgres world, so I > would not spend too many cycles on this... > I had one the other day caused by server resource issues: I ran out of file descriptors when I had a very large surge in activity. Pg rightfully panicked and disconnected all my clients. Only the well written ones recovered automagically. I had to restart a handful of services :-( It is wise to put the effort to testing your client recovery strategy does work. I must say that I haven't had a Postgres crash due to Postgres bug since version 7.2 or so. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general