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Tom Lane wrote:
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  <pre wrap="">Robert Schnabel <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:schnabelr(at)missouri(dot)edu"><schnabelr(at)missouri(dot)edu></a> writes:
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    <pre wrap=""> From a fresh server restart I have one process that will run one 
processor 100% essentially forever.  (I've let it go for about a week 
just to see if it would ever stop and it didn't).  Attached is a text 
dump from ProcessExplorer.  I have highlighted the relevant lines with 
****.  Also attached is the current postgresql log after a server 
restart.  You can see from the log that about every 70 seconds there is 
an entry "WARNING:  pgstat wait timeout".  This will go on forever.  
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Apparently the stats collector has gotten stuck in a loop and is failing
to update the stats file.  The 'wait timeout' bleats are probably coming
from the autovacuum launcher process, which is waiting for an up-to-date
stats file to appear.  Can you get a stack trace from the stats
collector process?
			regards, tom lane
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Sorry for the delayed response to this but I just had too many fires to
put out.  In the mean time, this problem seems to have cured itself.  I
rebooted my computer yesterday (Windows XP), the postgres service
started and I'm no longer having an issue.  I had not rebooted since I
upgraded to 8.4 but it seems to have done the trick.  Previously in
8.3.7 I would have this problem every time I would reboot.<br>
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Bob<br>
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