You should upgrade to the latest version (7.1.3) and see if you're still
experiencing the same problems..I'm sure you're interested in finding out
why it's happening but upgrading is still a good idea.... I'm almost
positive that the RPMs are available for 7.1.3..
-Mitch
----- Original Message -----
From: "Shane Wright" <me@shanewright.co.uk>
To: <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 1:58 PM
Subject: [GENERAL] backend stalls
> Hi
>
> I'm tearing my hair out here, the backend seems to randomly decide to
stall
> and not serve any more queries (processes are listed as waiting).
>
> It happens on all sorts of queries (including CREATE TABLE and CREATE
INDEX).
>
> I have completely uninstalled and deleted the whole installation and
> reinstalled - only to have it do it again mid way through entering the SQL
to
> rebuild my database (not a big one ~25 tables, and no rows to speak of -
> havent got that far yet).
>
> I was thinking corrupted tables - or corrupt system catalog, but even
> vacuumdb stalls as well...
>
> Any help would be appreciated, I have so much work to do and I cant do
> anything without the database working :(
>
> My install is Postgres 7.0.3-8 from the RedHat RPMs runing on RH7.1
>
> I know I havent given much specific information, I dont really know where
to
> start. What its doing at this very minute is hanging on an insert into a
> freshly created table on an installation thats only existed for 30 minutes
> and only just had all the tables created.
>
> Thanks
>
> Shane
>
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