Re: [GENERAL] System in Recovery Mode But No Activity

2008-06-21 Thread Tom Lane
"Scott Marlowe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 7:56 PM, John Cheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The state of the server when I sent this e-mail was that there were >> two remaining connections/postgres subprocesses. I used kill -9 to >> stop those two subprocesses. Then post

Re: [GENERAL] System in Recovery Mode But No Activity

2008-06-20 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 7:56 PM, John Cheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am running postgresql 8.3, I was not aware of the 3 options (smart, > fast, or immediate). So it used the default - "fast". > > The state of the server when I sent this e-mail was that there were > two remaining connections/

Re: [GENERAL] System in Recovery Mode But No Activity

2008-06-20 Thread John Cheng
I am running postgresql 8.3, I was not aware of the 3 options (smart, fast, or immediate). So it used the default - "fast". The state of the server when I sent this e-mail was that there were two remaining connections/postgres subprocesses. I used kill -9 to stop those two subprocesses. Then postg

Re: [GENERAL] System in Recovery Mode But No Activity

2008-06-20 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 7:12 PM, John Cheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We had a run away process on our database box that used up all the > physical and all the virtual memory (swap). This caused the RedHat > Linux oom-killer to kill many processes, including some Postgres ones. > Postgres went i