Re: pg_xlog becomes extremely large during CREATE INDEX

"Jeffrey W. Baker" <jwbaker@acm.org> writes:
> Oh sure, it's bleating.  Apparently my computer is too fast:

I don't think the checkpoint process is completing.

> May 12 16:37:08 mistral postgres[506]: [174-1] LOG:  server process (PID 16403) was terminated by signal 6

You need to find out why these aborts (presumably Assert failures) are
occurring.  Having just looked at the source code, I see that Assert
messages are never sent to syslog only to stderr.  So you'll want to
set things up to capture the postmaster's stderr instead of discarding it.

            regards, tom lane