Re: exit status 26

Dan Moschuk <dan@freebsd.org> writes:
> | > Can someone tell me what a postmaster process exiting with status = 26
> | > means?  FWIW, I'm doing a COPY table FROM stdin with about 14 million
> | > records to trigger this.
> |
> | That means it got a signal 26.

> Oh, sorry, for some reason I thought status = exit code.

Postgres doesn't use exit codes higher than 2, so I'm supposing that the
reported code must be a signal code.

> Signal 26 on FreeBSD is SIGVTARLM.

We don't ever set a virtual timer alarm, either.  Is it possible that
you are running the postmaster with a ulimit-style limit on total
process runtime?

            regards, tom lane