Is it crashing around the time a pg_dump is executed? There is a similar problem with 7.4.1 on cygwin / windows.
There were some patches for this applied to 7.4.2 if that is the case.
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 04:25:30PM -0500, Joe Lester wrote:
> I'm getting this message on Postgres 7.4.1 (Mac OS 10.3)
>
> 2004-05-24 15:20:15 WARNING: terminating connection because of crash
> of another server process
> DETAIL: The postmaster has commanded this server process to roll back
> the current transaction and exit, because another server process exited
> abnormally and possibly corrupted shared memory.
> HINT: In a moment you should be able to reconnect to the database and
> repeat your command.
>
> This message repeats itself for each back-end that shuts down.
>
> This is the second time in two days I've got this message in my log.
> The server has been running fine for about 5 months straight up until
> now. The load on the server has increased somewhat in the last few
> days, not in the number of back-end processes, but in the number of
> SELECTs each back-end performs.
>
> Can someone give me any pointers on what troubleshooting steps I can
> take to get my system stable again?
>
>
>
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