Yes, it does it consistently. Maybe I should start from scratch, if this seems very broken. Drew. -----Original Message----- From: pgsql-admin-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pgsql-admin-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Tom Lane Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2005 11:02 AM To: Simpson Cc: pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [ADMIN] postmaster stop hangs "Simpson" <asimpson@xxxxxxxx> writes: > Here is a ps of the currently running instance: > postgres 5671 1 0 02:32 pts/0 00:00:00 > /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -D /data/pgsql/data > postgres 5674 5671 0 02:32 pts/0 00:00:00 postgres: writer process > postgres 5675 5671 0 02:32 pts/0 00:00:00 postgres: stats buffer > process > postgres 5676 5675 0 02:32 pts/0 00:00:00 postgres: stats collector > process > 5676 is in the */data/postmaster.pid That seems extremely broken. Can you reproduce this state (wrong PID in postmaster.pid) after restarting the postmaster? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match