Re: Postgre "idle" process using 100% CPU

Jernej Kos <kostko@jweb-network.net> writes:
> Well there should be no complex queries executed (there are some huge tables,
> but the queries aren't huge or specially complicated). I tried attaching to
> the process via gdb and the process is executing method:

> HeapTupleSatisfiesSnapshot()

> The backtrace appears to be useless (too many ??s). Is that of any help ?

It's really hard to see how it could get to HeapTupleSatisfiesSnapshot()
without being inside a query --- too bad you can't get a more usable
backtrace.  Is it worth recompiling with --enable-debug to investigate
this?

            regards, tom lane