bhargav kamineni <bhargavpostgres@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Hi Team , > > We are observing long running process hung in active state on one of > our db from last two days with usename 'xyz', We have tried killing > the respective pid with pg_terminate_backned(pid), it's returning > true but the quires are not actually being terminated. Based on the > client address and port number from pg_stat_activity we found the > connection origin and killed that connection initiation process from > that host , even after that the connections on db from 'xyz' are > not getting terminated. Your client backend is most likely sitting in a blocked sys call such as network send, etc. Not sure though what is relaunching them after you say they were disabled some{where,how}. HTH > > and these connections are not making network calls a self dblink > connection is being established in the query. > > as a workaround we have disabled the connections initiation script > for xyz user and restarted the database right after restart we > observed the new connections from xyz user to database which is not > expected because as we have already disables the connections > initiation script. > > select pg_postmaster_start_time(); > pg_postmaster_start_time > ------------------------------ > 2019-09-24 06:44:07.41594+00 > > select usename,backend_start from pg_stat_activity where now() > -xact_start > '3 hours' and usename ='xyz'; > usename | backend_start > > -----------------+---------------------------- > xyz | 2019-09-24 06:44:38.879047+00 | > xyz | 2019-09-24 06:44:38.880501+00 | > xyz | 2019-09-24 06:44:38.881326+00 | > xyz | 2019-09-24 06:44:38.877561+00 | > xyz | 2019-09-24 06:44:38.878336+00 | > > what could be the possible reason for these connections and > pg_termiante_backend(pid) not working ? > > Thanks, > Bhargav K > > > > -- Jerry Sievers Postgres DBA/Development Consulting e: postgres.consulting@xxxxxxxxxxx