Re: How to debug a locked backend ?

From: Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>
To: Csaba Nagy <nagy(at)ecircle-ag(dot)com>
Cc: Postgres general mailing list <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: How to debug a locked backend ?
Date: 2005-11-18 13:23:35
Message-ID: 437DD5D7.2000702@archonet.com
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Csaba Nagy wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have right now a locked backend, similar to what I had a few days ago.
> It won't answer to pg_cancel_backend.
> Is there a way to diagnoze what it is actually doing ?
>
> If you answer, please do it quickly as in max 15 minutes I'll kill -9

Have you tried "strace -p <pid>" to see what calls it's making?

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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd

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