On 16/06/10 16:56, Allan Kamau wrote: > The function I have mentioned above seems to "hang" indefinitely (now > 12hours and counting) while it took only 2secs for the many times it > was previously invoked from the client application (with slightly > different parameter value at each such time). Is there anything in pg_catalog.pg_locks that relates to that query? If you attach a debugger to the stalled backend and get a backtrace, what's the output? See: http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Getting_a_stack_trace_of_a_running_PostgreSQL_backend_on_Linux/BSD If you strace the problem backend, does it appear to be doing anything? -- Craig Ringer Tech-related writing: http://soapyfrogs.blogspot.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
