felix@crowfix.com wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > > This message is from the backend exiting abruptly. Is isn't an "ERROR"
> > > as we define it for logging purposes. That's why there is nothing in
> > > the logs.
> >
> > Nonetheless I'd expect there to be at least a postmaster complaint about
> > a crashed backend --- assuming that that's what's going on. Do the
> > other active connections get forcibly closed when this happens?
>
> Haven't had any others open, it's a dev system. But I'll try leaving
> a psql session open. Right now it's gotten itself into the mood of
> always working, so it might have to wait a while.
>
> Could a corrupt db cause these mood swings? And if so, would that
> persist even across dropdb / creatdb?
Yes, that is possible, but usually it would fail consistently. Have you
run memtest and disk diagnostics?
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