Shared memory corrupted?

We are experiencing the following error, usually during our nightly
delete-and-vacuum cycle (when there are very few other connections to
the database):

2003-10-30 01:36:59 [25392]  LOG:  server process (pid 697) was
terminated by signal 14
2003-10-30 01:36:59 [25392]  LOG:  terminating any other active server
processes
2003-10-30 01:37:01 [1977]   FATAL:  The database system is in recovery mode
2003-10-30 01:37:08 [25392]  LOG:  all server processes terminated;
reinitializing shared memory and semaphores
2003-10-30 01:37:09 [2856]   FATAL:  The database system is starting up
2003-10-30 01:37:09 [2855]   LOG:  database system was interrupted at
2003-10-30 01:26:13 EST

The only clues we have are that the server processes interrupted by
"signal 14" *seem* to be backends connected to Apache processes (on
another server). But even that isn't certain, because of the difficulty
in tracking down which process was doing what at the time.

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