David Kerr <dmk@mr-paradox.net> writes:
> Looks like it was a query that was running. once my developer killed it the CPU went back down.
> I'm a little surprised by that, the backend process for that developer wasn't taking up a lot of CPU,
> just the postmaster itself.
The backtrace you showed was most definitely from a backend, not the
postmaster. I think you misidentified the process. On some platforms
"ps" isn't tremendously helpful about telling them apart ...
regards, tom lane
