Re: connection timeout?

Frank Bax <fbax@sympatico.ca> writes:
> Script and database are both on same system.  Faster system was able
> to get past next database access.  So far so good, script continues
> to run.  Still curious why it failed on slower system, though.

There's no connection timeout built into PG itself.  The message implies
that something sent the backend a SIGTERM signal, which makes me wonder
if you are running the postmaster under ulimit settings that include
a finite limit on process CPU or I/O expenditure.  Some platforms have
special signals for that (SIGXCPU etc) but I think some just send
SIGTERM when a process goes over the limit.

            regards, tom lane