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To: Robert Hiltibidal <rob@y2k.state.il.us>
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	Don_Kupferschmid@cms.state.il.us
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Postgres 6.5.1 Error 
In-reply-to: Your message of Fri, 03 Dec 1999 08:57:22 -0600
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Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 10:35:39 -0500
Message-ID: <1582.944235339@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Robert Hiltibidal <rob@y2k.state.il.us> writes:
> When we went into beta test we had one agency that when ever they accessed
> their data it would cause postgres to go into a cascade failure and take
> the server down. IF I can catch it in time I can kill the process. 

"Cascade failure" doesn't convey anything to me ... can you be more
specific?  What error messages do you find in the postmaster log, if
any?

> Unfortunately, since this is a state agency, I cannot release the full
> records. I can say there appears to be control characters in the data.

Can you show us the queries being used?

			regards, tom lane