On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 09:14:37AM -0700, Alan Hodgson wrote: > On Thursday 02 August 2007 09:02, "Bryan Murphy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > My question: Is there a way I can decrease the priority of a specific > > query, or determine the PID of the process it is running in? I'd like > > to throw together a quick shell script if at all possible, as right > > now I have to monitor the process manually and we'll have fixed the > > problem long before we have the chance to implement proper database > > clustering. > > select procpid from pg_stat_activity where current_query > like '%stored_proc%' and current_query not like '%pg_stat_activity%'; > > requires stats_command_string to be enabled > > I'm surprised your operating system doesn't automatically lower the priority > of the process, though ..
The OS will only lower it to a certain extent. Also, make sure you understand the concept of priority inversion before going into production with this solution. -- Decibel!, aka Jim Nasby [EMAIL PROTECTED] EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com 512.569.9461 (cell)
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