Adam Witney <awitney@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 19/8/05 5:27 pm, "Tom Lane" <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> In theory that should always work. What PG version is this? Can you >> attach to the stuck backend with gdb and get a stack trace? > Am not particularly familiar with gdb, but if you tell me the steps I will > do it and report back Think I've posted this before, but: Determine PID of backend you are interested in, eg with ps As postgres user, do $ gdb /path/to/postgres-executable PID-of-process gdb prints a bunch of junk gdb> bt ... copy and paste the output given here ... gdb> quit gdb: ok to detach? y $ If you get a pile of purely numeric output from bt, it's useless (means you're running symbol-stripped executables). I'm hoping for at least some function names. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org