Sean Kelly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) reports a bug with a severity of 1 The lower the number the more severe it is. Short Description An statement causes postmaster to die Long Description I am having a problem trying to run an update on my database. The SQL that causes the problem is listed below, as is some data from the tables used. The message I see is one of the following. It's either: Server process (pid 22322) exited with status 11 at Sun Apr 22 16:14:15 2001 Terminating any active server processes... Server processes were terminated at Sun Apr 22 16:14:15 2001 Reinitializing shared memory and semaphores DEBUG: Data Base System is starting up at Sun Apr 22 16:14:15 2001 DEBUG: Data Base System was interrupted being in production at Sun Apr 22 16:14:06 2001 DEBUG: Data Base System is in production state at Sun Apr 22 16:14:15 2001 or Server process (pid 22408) exited with status 11 at Sun Apr 22 16:18:05 2001 Terminating any active server processes... NOTICE: Message from PostgreSQL backend: The Postmaster has informed me that some other backend died abnormally and possibly corrupted shared memory. I have rolled back the current transaction and am going to terminate your database system connection and exit. Please reconnect to the database system and repeat your query. NOTICE: Message from PostgreSQL backend: The Postmaster has informed me that some other backend died abnormally and possibly corrupted shared memory. I have rolled back the current transaction and am going to terminate your database system connection and exit. Please reconnect to the database system and repeat your query. Server processes were terminated at Sun Apr 22 16:18:05 2001 Reinitializing shared memory and semaphores DEBUG: Data Base System is starting up at Sun Apr 22 16:18:05 2001 DEBUG: Data Base System was interrupted being in production at Sun Apr 22 16:14:15 2001 DEBUG: Data Base System is in production state at Sun Apr 22 16:18:05 2001 I am running PostgreSQL 7.0.2 on Linux 2.2.16 using an Intel Celeron 333 and 128Mb RAM. Sample Code isp=> \d domain_tbl Table "domain_tbl" Attribute | Type | Modifier -----------+-------------+---------- domain | varchar(80) | not null ident | varchar(5) | not null max_email | integer | not null username | varchar(10) | not null added | timestamp | Indices: domain_tbl_ident_key, domain_tbl_pkey isp=> SELECT * from domain_tbl where domain='test.domain'; domain | ident | max_email | username | added -------------+-------+-----------+----------+------------------------ test.domain | test | 10 | sean | 2001-04-22 16:17:22+01 (1 row) isp=> update domain_tbl set max_email='15' where domain='test.domain'; pqReadData() -- backend closed the channel unexpectedly. This probably means the backend terminated abnormally before or while processing the request. The connection to the server was lost. Attempting reset: Failed. !> No file was uploaded with this report ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])