Where are your postmaster logs going? (where is your startup redirecting
stdout and stderr). Those may have additional information.
Also, can you get a backtrace from the core file with gdb?
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, S Shaffer wrote:
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> Pgsql Users,
>
> I get the following message when trying to connect to database using psql or
> the ODBC driver.
>
> Connection to database 'warehouse' failed.
> pqReadData() -- backend closed the channel unexpectedly.
> This probably means the backend terminated abnormally
> before or while processing the request.
>
> and also a core dump in the 'warehouse' database directory. I can connect to
> other databases normally.
>
> I think the problem started when an admin user was creating a new view & had
> trouble.
>
> Can anyone help me with the syntax to get the postmaster to log more
> information on the error to a file?
>
> Is there any other way to get in & try to identify & fix the problems?
>
> Thanks for any help you can give me,