On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 02:02:02PM -0800, Gregory S. Williamson wrote: > I too have had issues with "stuck" entries in the pg_stat_activity view -- > the real pid is long gone but postgres still thinks the process is there. > > It would be real sweet to have a way of cleaning this table with bringing > postgres off-line.
Rather than trying to clean things up by hand, could the stats system instead periodically check to make sure that all the PIDs it knows about actually still exist? I think that should be a pretty cheap check to perform... > Greg Williamson > DBA > GlobeXplorer LLC On a side note, is GlobeXplorer using PostgreSQL? Would they be willing to let us publicize that fact? Better yet, would they be willing to do a case study? -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
