Well, a vacuum on the entire DB seemed to have cleaned things up.

No other user was logged into the server, and I certainly did not send
the signal.

I did clean up the serverlog file by truncating it ( > serverlog)
while the DB was running, I don't think it liked that since it crashed
the DB. I've done this on my Linux server many times and it never
complained. I won't be doing that again.

-Don

On Apr 11, 2005 1:29 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> 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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