Hi, PID 3533 does not exists in the system but its still in pg_stat_activity. This is PostgreSQL 8.0.3 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-49). Not sure if its already known issue , advance apologies if so. tradein_clients=# SELECT procpid,query_start, substring(btrim(current_query),0,50) from pg_stat_activity order by query_start limit 20; +---------+----------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------+ | procpid | query_start | substring | +---------+----------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------+ | 3533 | 2005-10-16 22:26:21.981728+05:30 | select prod_serv,memb_affil,eyp,pacode,estd,entry | | 3649 | 2005-10-16 22:26:33.168702+05:30 | <IDLE> in transaction | | 31579 | 2005-10-17 10:19:21.185764+05:30 | <IDLE> | | 32142 | 2005-10-17 10:21:46.696032+05:30 | <IDLE> | | 31715 | 2005-10-17 10:21:57.676293+05:30 | <IDLE> | | 3508 | 2005-10-17 10:22:12.500686+05:30 | <IDLE> | | 830 | 2005-10-17 10:23:04.34449+05:30 | <IDLE> | | 32197 | 2005-10-17 10:23:05.458473+05:30 | <IDLE> | | 31210 | 2005-10-17 10:23:20.55451+05:30 | <IDLE> | | 751 | 2005-10-17 10:24:33.519166+05:30 | <IDLE> | | 31908 | 2005-10-17 10:24:51.839088+05:30 | <IDLE> | | 31651 | 2005-10-17 10:24:53.896042+05:30 | <IDLE> | | 8777 | 2005-10-17 10:24:54.074668+05:30 | <IDLE> | | 31338 | 2005-10-17 10:25:28.248292+05:30 | <IDLE> | | 7547 | 2005-10-17 10:25:36.473533+05:30 | <IDLE> | | 10387 | 2005-10-17 10:26:00.250297+05:30 | <IDLE> | | 1399 | 2005-10-17 10:26:02.775205+05:30 | <IDLE> | | 867 | 2005-10-17 10:26:13.393084+05:30 | <IDLE> | | 10543 | 2005-10-17 10:26:14.258694+05:30 | <IDLE> | | 8680 | 2005-10-17 10:26:19.020959+05:30 | <IDLE> | +---------+----------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------+ (20 rows) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match