Don Drake <dondrake@gmail.com> writes:
> My server is crashing on a delete statement.
> Here's the error message in the log file:

> LOG: 00000: received fast shutdown request
> LOCATION: pmdie, postmaster.c:1736

That says that something sent the postmaster a SIGINT signal.
I think it's highly unlikely that the DELETE statement did it.

regards, tom lane

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