On Thursday 02 August 2007 09:02, "Bryan Murphy" <bryan.murphy@gmail.com>
wrote:
> My question: Is there a way I can decrease the priority of a specific
> query, or determine the PID of the process it is running in? I'd like
> to throw together a quick shell script if at all possible, as right
> now I have to monitor the process manually and we'll have fixed the
> problem long before we have the chance to implement proper database
> clustering.
select procpid from pg_stat_activity where current_query
like '%stored_proc%' and current_query not like '%pg_stat_activity%';
requires stats_command_string to be enabled
I'm surprised your operating system doesn't automatically lower the priority
of the process, though ..
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