Re: Postgres 7.2.3 hangs during vacuum. - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Postgres 7.2.3 hangs during vacuum.
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Msg-id 6711.1040667073@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Postgres 7.2.3 hangs during vacuum.  ("Robert M. Meyer" <rmeyer@installs.com>)
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"Robert M. Meyer" <rmeyer@installs.com> writes:
> Having a bizarre one, today.  It seems that when doing a vacuum FULL on
> our system, the backend postgres process gets into a strange state.  It
> starts consuming 100% of a cpu (we have two) and is immune to any signal
> (except 9).

Could you attach to the stuck process with a debugger and get a stack
backtrace, so we can get some idea what it's doing?  With gdb, the
procedure is

        gdb /path/to/postgres-executable
        gdb> attach pid-of-process
        gdb> bt
        gdb> q

            regards, tom lane

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