On Sat, Feb 19, 2022 at 8:35 AM Tomas Pospisek <tpo2@sourcepole.ch> wrote:
>
> On 18.02.22 22:42, Peter J. Holzer wrote:
>
> > If there has been a glibc update (or a postgresql update) in those 480
> > days (Ubuntu 14.04 is out of its normal maintenance period but ESM is
> > still available) the running processes may well run different code than
> > a newly started program. So it could be a bug which has since been
> > fixed.
>
> That would be visible via `lsof`. `libc. The file `...libc...so` that
> `postgres` is keeping open would have the text `DEL` (as in deleted) in
> the `FD` column of `lsof`'s output.
>
> As opposed to a newly started program which would have `REG` (regular
> file) there.
If this doesn't bear fruit, are there debugging symbols? Setting a
breakpoint might produce some insight.
merlin