Thank Tom, that's much better than guessing. r.b.
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 7:10 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Joe Conway <m...@joeconway.com> writes: > > On 10/03/2011 10:10 AM, Robert Burgholzer wrote: > >> FWIW - I am currently trying this while tracing the process that I > >> assume is the postmaster (/usr/bin/postgres -D /home/postgres/data), > >> since this process number indicates that it was recently restarted - > >> although the other PG processes, writer, wal writer, autovacuum, stats > >> collector all have their older pids indicating that they still survive. > > > Sounds like you are attaching to the wrong process. Try something like > > the below... > > No need to guess about it ... use "select pg_backend_pid();" and then > attach to that process. (BTW, the "postmaster" is the parent process. > The one you want to debug is a backend.) > > regards, tom lane > > -- > Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin > -- -- Robert W. Burgholzer http://www.findingfreestyle.com/ On Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Finding-Freestyle/151918511505970 Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/findfreestyle What's a tweeted swim set? A Sweet? No, a #swaiku! Get them by following http://twitter.com/findfreestyle