Re: killing process question

--howdy:

--not that the process is doing a lot or taking up
--a lot of resources, it's just something
--that i allow the users to kill and then
--it get's passed to me for correction if the
--simple 'kill <pid>' thing doesn't work.

--what i'm trying to understand is if there
--is a way to do this without having to restart
--the database (remember, it's still production)
--everytime there is a runaway process AND not
--kill -9 <pid>.

--how can i do this?

-X

-----Original Message-----
From: Shridhar Daithankar [mailto:shridhar_daithankar(at)persistent(dot)co(dot)in]
Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 10:45 AM
To: 'pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org'
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] killing process question

On 19 Sep 2002 at 10:39, Johnson, Shaunn wrote:

>
> --thanks for the reply:
>
> --no, I don't see anything like that. this is what I have:
>
> [snip]
>
> postgres 3488 5.6 0.0 11412 4 pts/4 T Sep18 88:53 postgres:
> joetestdb 16.xx.xx.xx SELECT
> [/snip]
>
> --this tells me that this proc had been running once upon a time (since
the
> 18th) and
> --has stopped (the 'T'). the user has said that he had since killed the
tool
> --that connected to the database and booted his machine.
>
> --so ... when I do a 'kill pid' or 'kill -TERM pid' ... *poof* ... nothing

> happens ...

Does restarting database helps? It may just make the thing go away..

Or stop the database, kill the pid with -9 and start it again.. Nothing
lost..

Bye
Shridhar

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