They seem to be happenning kinda randomly, I was unable to attribute them to any specific database activity going on at the time...
The postgres log looks like:
2003-06-10 13:53:32 [14522] DEBUG: pq_recvbuf: unexpected EOF on client connection
2003-06-10 13:53:32 [16915] DEBUG: pq_recvbuf: unexpected EOF on client connection
2003-06-10 13:53:32 [14523] DEBUG: pq_recvbuf: unexpected EOF on client connection
2003-06-10 13:53:32 [17095] DEBUG: pq_recvbuf: unexpected EOF on client connection
2003-06-10 13:53:32 [14551] FATAL 1: LWLockAcquire: can't wait without a PROC structure
2003-06-10 13:53:32 [14551] FATAL 1: LWLockAcquire: can't wait without a PROC structure
2003-06-10 13:53:32 [14527] DEBUG: pq_recvbuf: unexpected EOF on client connection
2003-06-10 13:53:32 [14685] DEBUG: pq_recvbuf: unexpected EOF on client connection
2003-06-10 13:53:32 [17093] DEBUG: pq_recvbuf: unexpected EOF on client connection
2003-06-10 13:53:32 [17092] DEBUG: pq_recvbuf: unexpected EOF on client connection
.... <snip a few identical messages (with different pids)
2003-06-10 13:53:33 [14072] DEBUG: server process (pid 14551) exited with exit code 1
2003-06-10 13:53:33 [14072] DEBUG: terminating any other active server processes
2003-06-10 13:53:33 [1609] NOTICE: Message from PostgreSQL backend:
The Postmaster has informed me that some other backend
died abnormally and possibly corrupted shared memory.
.....
It does not even produce a core file after this - just silently exists, and restarts itself.
Could somebody please point me to any clue what could possibly be wrong with it?
This is 7.2.1 - I know, I need to upgrade.
Working on it, but it is going to take a while, and at the time being I would greatly appreciate any ideas on what I can do about this thing.
Thanks a lot!
Dima
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