Re: [GENERAL] Query stucked in pg_stat_activity

2005-08-09 Thread Matthew T. O'Connor
Jan Wieck wrote: On 8/9/2005 12:21 PM, Tom Lane wrote: This reminds me I've forgot to ask, is there any other way of getting rid of those ghost entries than via big load ? Not at the moment. It might be worth teaching the pgstats code to cross-check the activity list every so often, but th

Re: [GENERAL] Query stucked in pg_stat_activity

2005-08-09 Thread Tom Lane
Jan Wieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Jan, any thoughts? > The reset call is supposed to throw away everything. If it leaves crap > behind, I'd call that a bug. resetcounters only thinks it is supposed to zero the counters for the current database. That seems considerably different from "thr

Re: [GENERAL] Query stucked in pg_stat_activity

2005-08-09 Thread Jan Wieck
On 8/9/2005 12:21 PM, Tom Lane wrote: Csaba Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I've executed a "select pg_stat_reset();" as superuser, and all went away except the offending row... That only resets the I/O counts (and only for one database), not the backend activity info. This reminds me I'v

Re: [GENERAL] Query stucked in pg_stat_activity

2005-08-09 Thread Tom Lane
Csaba Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> I've executed a "select pg_stat_reset();" as superuser, and all went >>> away except the offending row... >> >> That only resets the I/O counts (and only for one database), not the >> backend activity info. > This reminds me I've forgot to ask, is there

Re: [GENERAL] Query stucked in pg_stat_activity

2005-08-09 Thread Tom Lane
Csaba Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On our first test run everything went fine, the only strange thing is a > row in the pg_stat_activity, which has a row about a query which is long > gone, the process pointed by the procpid field is not existing. This is not totally surprising, since the pg

Re: [GENERAL] Query stucked in pg_stat_activity

2005-08-09 Thread Csaba Nagy
[snip] > > I've executed a "select pg_stat_reset();" as superuser, and all went > > away except the offending row... > > That only resets the I/O counts (and only for one database), not the > backend activity info. > > regards, tom lane This reminds me I've forgot to ask, i

Re: [GENERAL] Query stucked in pg_stat_activity

2005-08-09 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 04:25:30PM +0200, Csaba Nagy wrote: > The logs don't show the "statistics buffer is full" message as suggested > by Tom, but ITOH "log_min_messages = info", and that message might be a > debug level one. The message is in src/backend/postmaster/pgstat.c: if (!overflow)

Re: [GENERAL] Query stucked in pg_stat_activity

2005-08-09 Thread Csaba Nagy
Michael, I've read the message you referred, and it's probably what happens. In fact the original row I've complained about is gone, and I have now 10 other dead processes listed in pg_stat_activity... one of the queries is a "", still running after 25 minutes, and the associated process is gone,

Re: [GENERAL] Query stucked in pg_stat_activity

2005-08-09 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 03:19:46PM +0200, Csaba Nagy wrote: > I have a postgres system where we just migrated a fairly big data set. > The application accessing it is a cluster of servers which do burst-like > processing, i.e. when they have some work to do, it will be distributed > in the cluster

Re: [GENERAL] Query stucked in pg_stat_activity

2005-08-09 Thread Csaba Nagy
Oh, I've forgot to mention that the DB is version 8.0.3 running on linux. Cheers, Csaba. On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 15:19, Csaba Nagy wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a postgres system where we just migrated a fairly big data set. > The application accessing it is a cluster of servers which do burst-like

[GENERAL] Query stucked in pg_stat_activity

2005-08-09 Thread Csaba Nagy
Hi all, I have a postgres system where we just migrated a fairly big data set. The application accessing it is a cluster of servers which do burst-like processing, i.e. when they have some work to do, it will be distributed in the cluster and the data base will be under fairly high load. On our fi