Christopher Cashell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Eventually I attempted to shut it down and restart it, however that > failed too. When I attempted to shut it down, I discovered a hung > 'startup subprocess' that can't be killed.
This is interesting because it seems just about exactly like this recent Red Hat bug report: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=126885 As I commented there, I think that it must be a kernel or hardware issue --- Postgres itself can surely not make an unkillable process. However it's common to see processes that don't respond to kill if they are stuck inside a kernel I/O request. That could mean either unresponsive hardware or a kernel bug. I wonder whether you have any similarities in hardware or Linux kernel to the person who filed the above report? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
