Re: A couple serious errors

Mike Richards <mrmikerich@gmail.com> writes:
> Over the past couple days I started seeing errors like this in my server logs:
> WARNING:  terminating connection because of crash of another server process

This is a consequence of an earlier failure --- tell us about what
happened just before that.

> Then tonight I started getting one like this:
> FATAL:  semctl(0, 0, SETVAL, 0) failed: Identifier removed

I'm thinking that you've got hardware problems (bad RAM).  There isn't
any way that Postgres would delete its semaphores during normal
operation.

            regards, tom lane