Server Type Reported for Terminated Programs
When a program attached to the Ingres shared memory segment terminates unexpectedly, a message is written to the log to identify the running program and, if it is a command line program, the program arguments. For example:
Process (000033B4) died with info 'auditdb -a tstdb'.
When database servers and database utilities such as auditdb are executing, they attach themselves to the Ingres shared memory segment. In previous releases, when an error occurred, it was difficult to determine which memory-attached program terminated and, thus, whether the failure was critical or merely a benign error that could, for example, be resolved by re-running the utility program that failed or was canceled.
The new information logged makes it easier to debug problems associated with the shared memory segment.
Note: Because the messages appear in the log when Ingres notices the abnormal termination, their writing may be asynchronous with the program termination itself.