Re: 7.4: FATAL: terminating connection due to administrator command

Dmitry Knyazev <dfr@wm.ru> writes:
>   Im using postgres 7.4 build from source on FreeBSD 4.9 with pglogd
>   for storing apache logs.
>   When apache load becomes moderate enough, postgres exits with message:
>     FATAL:  terminating connection due to administrator command

Something is sending SIGTERM signals to your backend processes (or, if
the postmaster stops too, SIGINT to the postmaster).  Find out what's
doing that and make it stop ;-).  I'd bet on "ulimit" or some other
resource-limiting feature.

            regards, tom lane