"Oliver Elphick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can anyone suggest what may be happening here? > The original bug report was that initdb stuck with postgres consuming > most of the CPU cycles. > Now initdb has succeeded but `\d prova' in a test database consistently > stalls, again with postgres taking most of the CPU. No idea, but if you could attach to the looping backend with gdb and provide a stack backtrace, it might help. regards, tom lane