=?iso-8859-1?Q?Lo=EFc_Courtois?= <lcourtois@netpartage.fr> writes:
> We used postgres since 5 months, and we have some times crash, with the
> following entry in the postgres.log:
> /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/postmaster: ServerLoop: select failed: No child
> processes
This is a known bug: the SIGCHLD catcher in postmaster.c needs to save
and restore errno. It's fixed in 7.1, or you can patch it yourself in
7.0.* --- see previous discussions in the archives.
regards, tom lane