I saw the above message on PostgreSQL 7.1.3 on powerpc-ibm-aix4.3.2.0.  I
looked in the sources for this message and it appears to be a startup
message.  I looked at the process and while it may be that the child
processes were killed, the postmaster process is still going back to
the day I started it.

I ran this on NetBSD for many months with no problem.  Does anyone know of
any issue that I need to be aware of under AIX?  Can someone explain what
is happening here?  I also get a lot of "The Data Base System is starting up"
and "The Data Base System is in recovery mode" messages as well.

We also had an issue the other day with processes that could not be killed.
Even kill -9 would not kill the backends.  Very weird.

Thanks.

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Wed, 5 Dec 2001 11:52:15 -0500 (EST)
darcy@druid.net (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
database system was interrupted at...
darcy@druid.net (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) writes:
> I ran this on NetBSD for many months with no problem.  Does anyone know of
> any issue that I need to be aware of under AIX?  Can someone explain what
> is happening here?  I also get a lot of "The Data Base System is starting up"
> and "The Data Base System is in recovery mode" messages as well.

Sounds to me like you are suffering backend crashes; this other stuff is
just crash recovery activity.  Tell us about "backend unexpectedly quit"
log messages, core dump files, that sort of thing.

			regards, tom lane

Wed, 05 Dec 2001 17:23:58 -0500
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Re: database system was interrupted at... 