On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Rajesh Kumar Mallah wrote:
> oops forgot to post the ps auxwww | grep "post"
>
> bash-2.03$ ps auxwww| grep post
> postgres 3901 3.4 1.3 141068 13868 ? D 12:05 1:29 postgres:
> tradein tradein_clients 130.94.20.27 COPY
> root 6476 0.0 0.0 2156 888 pts/3 S 12:39 0:00 su -
> postgres
> postgres 6478 0.0 0.1 2004 1168 pts/3 S 12:39 0:00 -bash
> postgres 7058 0.0 0.3 139200 3780 pts/3 S 12:44 0:00
> /usr/bin/postmaster -D /var/lib/pgsql/data
> postgres 7059 0.3 1.9 140808 19688 pts/3 D 12:44 0:00
> /usr/bin/postmaster -D /var/lib/pgsql/data
> postgres 7396 0.0 0.0 2324 696 pts/3 R 12:47 0:00 ps auxwww
>
> postgres 7397 0.0 0.0 1360 512 pts/3 S 12:47 0:00 grep post
>
> bash-2.03$
>
> hmmm. two postmasters ??
>
> and perhaps the "postgres: tradein tradein_clients 130.94.20.27 COPY"
> is the guilty one
>
> how do i get rid of that ...
I believe you want
kill -INT 3901
to get rid of the backend.
