Re: Postmaster crashes

Here, we have a similar problem.  When there are about 34 psql processes
running and one more gets added, all turn to zombies.  The only way to get
Postgres running again is to restart it.

Postgres version 6.4
Linux version 2.0.36

J.D.

On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Mike Field wrote:

>
>     Hi-
>
> My php website interacts with a postrgres database, and every now and then,
> postgres just seems to crash.  A simple restart of postmaster fixes the
> problem, until it crashes again.  However, I have no idea EXACTLY when it
> crashes (what the website users are doing at the time, if anything) and WHY.
> If someone has any ideas as to why it might be crashing, or how I can find
> out why, and what to do about it, I would appreciate the help.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike
> mike@fieldco.com
>