Re: Server crashing

by Truncating the serverlog do you mean the data_log (as in my case)
log file of the postgresql sever ?. If thats the file you truncated
than i think its not a good habit..since you might need it at some
point of time for some debugging purpose in production.

You could use something like assuming there is a dummy file of 0 bytes
in logs folder..

cp data_log data_log_$current_time
cat logs/dummy_file>data_log
gzip data_log_$current_time
mv data_log_$current_time.gz logs/data_log_$current_time.gz

Hope this helps

Best
Gourish Singbal


On Apr 11, 2005 7:54 PM, Don Drake <dondrake@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, a vacuum on the entire DB seemed to have cleaned things up.
>
> No other user was logged into the server, and I certainly did not send
> the signal.
>
> I did clean up the serverlog file by truncating it ( > serverlog)
> while the DB was running, I don't think it liked that since it crashed
> the DB.   I've done this on my Linux server many times and it never
> complained.  I won't be doing that again.
>
> -Don
>
> On Apr 11, 2005 1:29 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> > Don Drake <dondrake@gmail.com> writes:
> > > My server is crashing on a delete statement.
> > > Here's the error message in the log file:
> >
> > > LOG:  00000: received fast shutdown request
> > > LOCATION:  pmdie, postmaster.c:1736
> >
> > That says that something sent the postmaster a SIGINT signal.
> > I think it's highly unlikely that the DELETE statement did it.
> >
> >                         regards, tom lane
> >
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