Database in recovery mode

Okay. I've narrowed it down just a little more.

If I start up postgres and run the query that caused it to crash
before, it will crash again iff it is the first query I run.

Even the slightest change in that query seems to stop it from
crashing. The original query was and should have returned:
equipment=> SELECT
year,manufacturer,model,stocknumber,quantity,realprice,province,countr
y,id,pricecurrency FROM ad_trucks AS AD WHERE active='t' AND cat1=9
AND cat2=4576 AND UPPER(manufacturer) LIKE '%KENWORTH%' AND year
BETWEEN 1997 AND 2000;
 year | manufacturer |     model     | stocknumber | quantity |
realprice | province | country |  id   | pricecurrency
------+--------------+---------------+-------------+----------+-------
----+----------+---------+-------+---------------
 1998 | Kenworth     | T2000         |             |        1
|           | Manitoba | Canada  | 31990 | CAD
 1999 | Kenworth     | W900B         |             |        1
|           | Manitoba | Canada  | 31991 | CAD
 1998 | Kenworth     | W-900 Damaged |             |        1
|           | Missouri | USA     | 16535 | USD
 1998 | Kenworth     | W900L         | 755934      |        1
|           | Indiana  | USA     | 16496 | USD
 1997 | Kenworth     | W900L         | 742184      |        1
|           | Indiana  | USA     | 23936 | USD
 1997 | Kenworth     | T600          |             |        1
|           | Manitoba | Canada  | 31989 | CAD
 1997 | Kenworth     | T600          | #050520-97  |        1 |
47500.00 | Quebec   | Canada  | 32675 | USD
 1999 | Kenworth     | T600          | 99130       |        1 |
79500.00 | Ontario  | Canada  | 32829 | CAD
 1998 | Kenworth     | W900L         | 758000      |        1
|           | Indiana  | USA     | 22370 | USD
 1997 | Kenworth     | W900L         | #170420     |        3
|           | Quebec   | Canada  | 32215 | USD
 1997 | Kenworth     | T800          | #01502-15   |        5 |
34500.00 | Quebec   | Canada  | 24482 | USD
 1997 | Kenworth     | W900L         | 2-00-54/56  |        2 |
51950.00 | Ontario  | Canada  | 32620 | USD
 1997 | Kenworth     | W900L         | fmdc        |        1
|           | Ontario  | Canada  | 31932 | CAD
 2000 | Kenworth     | T800          |             |        1
|           | Texas    | USA     | 33111 | USD
(14 rows)

If I replace the column list with a *, it runs fine. Any number of
times I run it within that session of pgsql the original query runs
fine.

Here is the query with a fresh postgres:
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/psql -U equipment
Welcome to psql, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.

Type:  \copyright for distribution terms
       \h for help with SQL commands
       \? for help on internal slash commands
       \g or terminate with semicolon to execute query
       \q to quit

equipment=> SELECT
year,manufacturer,model,stocknumber,quantity,realprice,province,countr
y,id,pricecurrency FROM ad_trucks AS AD WHERE active='t' AND cat1=9
AND cat2=4576 AND UPPER(manufacturer) LIKE '%KENWORTH%' AND year
BETWEEN 1997 AND 2000;
pqReadData() -- backend closed the channel unexpectedly.
 This probably means the backend terminated abnormally
 before or while processing the request.
The connection to the server was lost. Attempting reset: Failed.
!>

Poof! It explodes.

Running a:
Select * from ad_trucks; before running the query causes the query to
succeed.

Having found that... I don't know where to go from here...

-Michael
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