Any chance you're running out of disk space somewhere?
Have you looked in the log file for clues?
(/var/log/postgres.log on debian - not sure if the location is the same on
other OSs.)
-Nick
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org]On Behalf Of Shane Wright
> Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 12:59 PM
> To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> Subject: [GENERAL] backend stalls
>
>
> Hi
>
> I'm tearing my hair out here, the backend seems to randomly
> decide to stall
> and not serve any more queries (processes are listed as waiting).
>
> It happens on all sorts of queries (including CREATE TABLE and
> CREATE INDEX).
>
> I have completely uninstalled and deleted the whole installation and
> reinstalled - only to have it do it again mid way through
> entering the SQL to
> rebuild my database (not a big one ~25 tables, and no rows to speak of -
> havent got that far yet).
>
> I was thinking corrupted tables - or corrupt system catalog, but even
> vacuumdb stalls as well...
>
> Any help would be appreciated, I have so much work to do and I cant do
> anything without the database working :(
>
> My install is Postgres 7.0.3-8 from the RedHat RPMs runing on RH7.1
>
> I know I havent given much specific information, I dont really
> know where to
> start. What its doing at this very minute is hanging on an insert into a
> freshly created table on an installation thats only existed for
> 30 minutes
> and only just had all the tables created.
>
> Thanks
>
> Shane
>
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