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From: aoki@postgres.Berkeley.EDU (Paul M. Aoki)
To: John Peter Lee <jlee@cs.uml.edu>
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Subject: Re: please define this error for me... 
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John Peter Lee <jlee@cs.uml.edu> writes:
> 	Error: No response from the backend, exiting...

this generally means the postgres backend server (not postmaster)
to which you were talking dumped core (or otherwise exited abruptly).
the core (if any) is dropped in ..../data/base/<foo> where <foo> is 
the name of your database.
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