On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Cassiano, Marco <mcassiano@manord.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> this afternoon I had a database crash on a test system (The first Postgres
> crash in more than three years).
> I wasn't able to identify the reason.....the log doesn't say anything
> interesting.
> Is there way the exactly identify the reason of the crash ?
> 2009-05-19 16:04:18 CEST 0 4a092d56.1535 - LOG: server process (PID
> 22298) was terminated by signal 9: Killed
> 2009-05-19 16:04:18 CEST 0 4a092d56.1535 - LOG: terminating any other
> active server processes
Postgres doesn't issue kill -9s. Looks like the OOM killer got you.