Oops! pgsql@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ("Ed L.") was seen spray-painting on a wall: > I have a bunch of 7.4.6 backend processes that show up via > pg_stat_get_db_numbackends(), pg_stat_get_backend_idset(), etc, > but do not show up in ps. Any clues? Possibly your statistics collector got "overrun," and the last time it was successfully updated, they were there? -- (reverse (concatenate 'string "moc.liamg" "@" "enworbbc")) http://linuxdatabases.info/info/internet.html If a man speaks in the forest and there is no woman to hear him, is he still wrong?