crash_shutdown Crash Shutdown — SQLSTATE 57P02

The server reports SQLSTATE 57P02 (crash_shutdown), a condition in the Operator Intervention class.

• The error is written to the server log and returned to the client carrying SQLSTATE 57P02.
• Any driver (libpq, JDBC, psycopg, npgsql, pgx) surfaces this code in its error object so you can branch on it programmatically.

Severity: PANIC  |  PostgreSQL versions: 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17

Commonly coincides with restarts, failover, maintenance, or network events; check server uptime and the log around the timestamp.

57P02 belongs to Class 57 — Operator Intervention. In this class, the statement or session was canceled or terminated by timeout, admin, or shutdown.

The first two characters (57) identify the error class, so application code can match the whole class via 57000 when the specific code is not needed.

Optimize slow queries and tune statement_timeout, expect cancellations during failover/maintenance, and add automatic retry/reconnect logic.

Reference: PostgreSQL error codes — Class 57 (Operator Intervention).