William Yu <wyu@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Doing a ps -ef | grep postgres, I will see something like: > root 17034 1 0 21:41 ? 00:00:00 gdb -q -x /dev/stdin > postgres 9131 > postgres 9131 2712 0 20:31 ? 00:00:00 postgres: postgres > netdata [local] VACUUM So where did the gdb come from? > The strange thing is I cannot kill the dead process. It's not dead --- gdb has got it by the throat. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org