Ah... no I didn't know that - that would explain all the other
behaviour then!! Good to know.
Alex
On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> "Alex Turner" <armtuk@gmail.com> writes:
> > ... I found what was going on in that bit and fixed it so
>
> > it's not crashing anymore, I'm just worried about how on earth that
> > could have affected other back end processes that were querying
> > unrelated databases.
>
> You do know that a crash in any backend prompts the postmaster to
> restart the whole database cluster? I've forgotten the start of this
> thread, but what you say here sounds like expected behavior.
>
> regards, tom lane
>