Today, I looked at 'top' on my PG server and saw a pid that reported 270 hours of CPU time. Considering this is a very simple query, I was surprised to say the least. I was about to just kill the pid, but I figured I'd try and see exactly what it was stuck doing for so long.
If you are using connection pooling, or if your client keeps the connections for a long time, this backend could be very old... With PHP's persistent connections, for instance, backends restart when you restart the webserver, which isn't usually very often.
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