PG 7.0 crash on SELECT

Issuing the followin SELECT crashes PG 7.0:

auction=# SELECT a.id,a.title,a.id,(select CASE WHEN a.stopdate < 'now' THEN 'closed' ELSE 'open' end) as status,to_char(a.time,'DD-MM HH24:MI'),b.price FROM auction* a, bid b WHERE a.id = b.auctionid AND b.login = 'mito2';
pqReadData() -- backend closed the channel unexpectedly.
This probably means the backend terminated abnormally
before or while processing the request.
The connection to the server was lost. Attempting reset: Failed.
!# \q

Apparently PG doesn't like the (SELECT CASE ... ) statement, until I
added it everything went well.

Here are the table descriptions:

                               Table "auction"
  Attribute   |   Type    |                     Modifier                     
--------------+-----------+--------------------------------------------------
 id           | integer   | not null default nextval('auction_id_seq'::text)
 login        | text      | not null
 startdate    | timestamp | not null default now()
 stopdate     | timestamp | not null
 description  | text      | not null
 startprice   | float8    | not null
 reserveprice | float8    | 
 category     | text      | not null
 imageurl     | text      | 
 title        | text      | not null
 quantity     | integer   | default 1
 time         | timestamp | not null default now()
 option       | bigint    | 
Index: auction_pkey
Constraints: (quantity > 0)
             (imageurl ~ '^http://'::text)
             (stopdate > startdate)
             ((reserveprice ISNULL) OR (reserveprice > startprice))

                  Table "bid"
 Attribute |   Type    |        Modifier        
-----------+-----------+------------------------
 login     | text      | not null
 auctionid | integer   | not null
 price     | float8    | not null
 quantity  | integer   | not null default 1
 time      | timestamp | not null default now()
Index: bid_pkey

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