Phoenix Kiula <phoenix.kiula@gmail.com> writes:
> I did a COPY FROM and populated the entire table. In my hard disk, the
> space consumption went up by 64GB.
> Yet, when I do a "SELECT * FROM mytable LIMIT 1" the entire DB
> crashes. There is no visible record.
There should certainly be a "visible record" somewhere, ie, the
postmaster log. It might also be productive to look in the kernel log
for events around the same time --- OOM kills would be recorded there,
and if the true story here is hardware problems there might also be
kernel log messages about that.
regards, tom lane