Re: postgres process got stuck in "notify interrupt waiting" status - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Aleksey Tsalolikhin
Subject Re: postgres process got stuck in "notify interrupt waiting" status
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Msg-id CA+jMWofF0u9DHBGKSEo=Cn-XpCc97TqLEVX_KRBPGRTt1ZMEHQ@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: postgres process got stuck in "notify interrupt waiting" status  (John R Pierce <pierce@hogranch.com>)
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On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 7:21 PM, John R Pierce <pierce@hogranch.com> wrote:
> On 09/04/12 7:09 PM, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote:
>>
>> BTW, after I signalled TERM, the process status changed from
>>
>> notify interrupt waiting
>>
>> to
>>
>> notify interrupt waiting waiting
>>
>> which I thought looked kind of odd.
>>
>> Then I signalled KILL.
>
>
> was this a client process or a postgres process?   kill -9 on postgres
> processes can easily trigger data corruption.

This was a postgres process.  i certainly won't signal KILL anymore to
postgres processes, thanks for that warning, John.

Aleksey


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