On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> bricklen <bricklen@gmail.com> writes:
> > I'm getting a strange error during reload of one of our databases.
>
> This appears to indicate that the server's first idea that there was
> trouble came when the client side disconnected partway through a COPY:
>
> > 2010-08-25 04:16:46 PDT [2401]: [1-1] (user=postgres) ERROR: unexpected
> > message type 0x58 during COPY from stdin
>
> (0x58 = 'X' = Terminate message, implying client called PQfinish)
>
> So it would be useful to look at what pg_restore thinks happened.
> I rather suspect your cron setup sends pg_restore's output to
> /dev/null ... or at least you failed to show it.
>
> regards, tom lane
cron:
MAILTO=""
30 2 * * * /var/lib/pgsql/sync-db.sh 2>&1
I'll modify that to append to a log file and see what else turns up.