Re: rebellious postgres process

Laszlo Nagy <gandalf@shopzeus.com> writes:
> The process is still running:

Could you attach to it with gdb and see what it's doing?

>> Do you have a whole lot of tables in this database?
> One database has 140 tables, the other has 62. (There are two other
> database instances but they are rarely used.)
>> (Or even more directly: how large is $PGDATA/global/pgstat.stat ?)
>>
> -rw-------  1 pgsql  pgsql  54536 Nov  3 20:11 pgstat.stat

Well, that lets out the theory that it just has a whole lot of stats
to keep track of ... although it's quite interesting that the file
timestamp isn't current.  Somehow it's evidently gotten wedged in
a way that prevents it from updating the file.

            regards, tom lane