On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Sean Weissensee wrote:
> Using psql I have had this error appearing in the last 2 days
> that has not before,
>
> we are using postgres 6.2 on Redhat linux 6.2
>
> NOTICE: Message from PostgreSQL backend:
> The Postmaster has informed me that some other backend died abnormally and possibly corrupted shared memory.
> I have rolled back the current transaction and am going to terminate your database system connection and
exit.
> Please reconnect to the database system and repeat your query.
> pqFlush() -- backend closed the channel unexpectedly.
> This probably means the backend terminated abnormally before or while processing the request.
Well, that's a really old version of postgres. You should
probably upgrade. In any case, there should be something
more informative in the server's logs (hopefully you've
been redirecting them somewhere useful).