On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Mason Hale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Here's some of the strace output: > select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 10000}) = 0 (Timeout) > If I read the 'select(2)' man page correctly, it appears this process is waiting indefinitely for a NULL file descriptor. That looks pretty stuck to me. Should I kill this autovacuum process via pg_cancel_backend? Or is there a better way to "unstick" it? Any ideas what may have caused it to get into this condition? - Mason