most odd then ... I've had to kill off processes in the past (recent bug
report being a good example) and haven't had problems where having to
rebuild the database was a requirement ... I can't recall the OS you are
running on, but FreeBSD has a 'gcore' function that you can get a core
dump of a runnign process with ... assuming you have similar (or are
running FreeBSD), I wonder what a core dump would show ...
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Oliver Smith wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 04:59:51PM -0300, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> > On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Oliver Smith wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 10:23:57AM -0300, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> > > > BTW, what do you mean by 'went away'? crashed, or just hung there?
> > >
> > > Stopped using CPU, stopped responding to signals (except in the end -9),
> > > and when I did finally kill it (the following day, to give it chance to
> > > do what it was doing), it left the database the tables had been in flagged
> > > as 'in use' so I couldn't touch them =/
> >
> > Stupid question, but what version of PostgreSQL did you say you were
> > using? *raised eyebrow*
>
> psql (PostgreSQL) 7.0.2
> contains readline, history, multibyte support
> Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2000, PostgreSQL, Inc
> Portions Copyright (c) 1996 Regents of the University of California
> Read the file COPYRIGHT or use the command \copyright to see the
> usage and distribution terms.
>
> Oliver
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>
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