Re: Weird PostgreSQL crashes on FC2/FC3 64-bit - Mailing list pgsql-general

William Yu <wyu@talisys.com> writes:
> Doing a ps -ef | grep postgres, I will see something like:

> root     17034     1  0 21:41 ?        00:00:00 gdb -q -x /dev/stdin
> postgres 9131
> postgres  9131  2712  0 20:31 ?        00:00:00 postgres: postgres
> netdata [local] VACUUM

So where did the gdb come from?

> The strange thing is I cannot kill the dead process.

It's not dead --- gdb has got it by the throat.

            regards, tom lane