Re: Superuser lost access to particular database

From: Francisco Reyes <lists(at)stringsutils(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Superuser lost access to particular database
Date: 2006-09-13 05:01:19
Message-ID: cone.1158123679.796720.74301.1000@zoraida.natserv.net
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Tom Lane writes:

> Francisco Reyes <lists(at)stringsutils(dot)com> writes:
>> Tom Lane writes:
>>> is the pg_dump or its backend consuming CPU, or just sitting?
>
>> At 90% of my CPU.
> The pg_dump process, or the backend?

Backend.
pgsql 60769 47.8 1.3 17636 4888 ?? R 11:34AM 761:15.92 postmaster:
pgsql pablar [local] SELECT (postgres)

> SELECT classid, objid, refclassid, refobjid, deptype FROM pg_depend WHERE deptype != 'p' ORDER BY 1,2
> so apparently something is fishy about the dependency data. Can you
> execute this query by hand and get results?

Nothing happens when I try to run the query.

> It could be that pg_depend is corrupted in a way that locks up the
> backend trying to read it, or it could be that pg_dump is getting
> confused and going into a loop trying to process the data. I can't
> tell from this description.

What additional info can I provide?
Any additional troubleshooting I can try?
This one DB is preventing me from doing a pg_dumpall.

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