Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
> Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> writes:
>> On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 03:03:09PM +0100, Richard Huxton wrote:
>>> What would be sending SIGTERM to a backend?
>
>> The only other thing I've ever heard of is some systems do a sigterm
>> when you pass a quota limit?
>
> Could be. The actual standard use of SIGTERM is to kill processes
> belonging to your terminal process group when you log out. So, for
> example, manually starting the postmaster from a terminal window and
> then closing that window could cause this to happen.
I thought that was SIGHUP?
-Doug