Re: backend terminated abnormally

"Bob Powell" <bob@hotchkiss.org> writes:
> NOTICE : analyzing pg_type server closed connection unexpectedly.
>     This probably means the backend terminated abnormally before or
> while processing the request.

Not good ... can you get a stack trace from the backend core dump?

> Vacuum has been working religiously for the past two years.  Oh yeah, my
> version of postgres is 7.2.

Please tell us it's 7.2.4.  Or if it isn't, make it so.

            regards, tom lane