Re: emergency outage requiring database restart

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: emergency outage requiring database restart
Date: 2016-10-13 21:13:30
Message-ID: 20496.1476393210@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> Today I had an emergency production outage on a server.
> ...
> Adding all this up it smells like processes were getting stuck on a spinlock.

Maybe. If it happens again, probably the most useful debug data would
be stack traces from some of the busy processes.

regards, tom lane

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