On 16/06/10 16:56, Allan Kamau wrote:
> The function I have mentioned above seems to "hang" indefinitely (now
> 12hours and counting) while it took only 2secs for the many times it
> was previously invoked from the client application (with slightly
> different parameter value at each such time).
Is there anything in pg_catalog.pg_locks that relates to that query?
If you attach a debugger to the stalled backend and get a backtrace,
what's the output? See:
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Getting_a_stack_trace_of_a_running_PostgreSQL_backend_on_Linux/BSD
If you strace the problem backend, does it appear to be doing anything?
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Craig Ringer
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