On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 06:10, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Jeffrey W. Baker" <jwbaker@acm.org> writes:
> > Oh sure, it's bleating. Apparently my computer is too fast:
>
> I don't think the checkpoint process is completing.
>
> > May 12 16:37:08 mistral postgres[506]: [174-1] LOG: server process (PID 16403) was terminated by signal 6
>
> You need to find out why these aborts (presumably Assert failures) are
> occurring. Having just looked at the source code, I see that Assert
> messages are never sent to syslog only to stderr. So you'll want to
> set things up to capture the postmaster's stderr instead of discarding it.
The server process aborted when the device filled up.
-jwb