On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 04:25:30PM +0200, Csaba Nagy wrote: > The logs don't show the "statistics buffer is full" message as suggested > by Tom, but ITOH "log_min_messages = info", and that message might be a > debug level one. The message is in src/backend/postmaster/pgstat.c: if (!overflow) { ereport(LOG, (errmsg("statistics buffer is full"))); overflow = true; } For log_min_messages, LOG is just above FATAL and PANIC, so I'd expect those messages to appear in the logs if they're happening. But I don't recall seeing them either. > In any case it seems my system can readily reproduce the issue whenever > I place a bigger load on it... I was also able to reproduce the behavior when running pgbench with sufficiently high settings. -- Michael Fuhr ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq