Re: Postgresql/PHP backend error

i'd trt trawling the newsgroups - started to do it for you but got zillions of results back. try postgresql.org for starters ... Steve "Nigel Gilbert" <n.gilbert@soc.surrey.ac.uk> wrote in message news:p05100314b7a6fc817874@[192.168.123.1]... > I have PHP 4.06, Postgres7.1 and Apache on a Solaris server. Most of > the time all works as expected. Occasionally I get an database error: > > Database error > There was a database error when accessing Database zwg: > pqReadData() -- backend closed the channel unexpectedly. This probably > means the backend terminated abnormally before or while processing the > request. > (while evaluating: SELECT serializedobject FROM objects WHERE name='Zurich') > > [This error page is generated by my application; it displays the > error reported by Postgresql and the SQL that caused the error]. > > The error is not caused by my SQL syntax, since this same code > executes without a problem at other times. > > Has anyone else seen an error like this? Where do I start looking for > the cause? Which backend is terminating abnormally (Postgresql or > PHP?) and why should it do that? > > Nigel Gilbert > >