Alexander Stanier <alexander.stanier@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 2005-07-20 21:24:15 BST [13299] FATAL: could not read statistics > message: Resource temporarily unavailable > Does anyone know what this means? It evidently means that the pgstat collector process got an EAGAIN errno from recv() while trying to read a stats message. While EAGAIN is certainly documented as a possible failure from recv(), I'm finding it hard to see why any kernel would return that for a read from a file that has just told select() it is read-ready. What platform are you on? Were you having better luck with an earlier PG version, and if so which? regards, tom lane