Laszlo Nagy <gandalf@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > The process is still running: Could you attach to it with gdb and see what it's doing? >> Do you have a whole lot of tables in this database? > One database has 140 tables, the other has 62. (There are two other > database instances but they are rarely used.) >> (Or even more directly: how large is $PGDATA/global/pgstat.stat ?) >> > -rw------- 1 pgsql pgsql 54536 Nov 3 20:11 pgstat.stat Well, that lets out the theory that it just has a whole lot of stats to keep track of ... although it's quite interesting that the file timestamp isn't current. Somehow it's evidently gotten wedged in a way that prevents it from updating the file. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin