"Tass Chapman" <tasseh.postgres@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Any suggestions on what I can look at to see why the checkpoint was so far > outstanding and why it hung on in a Zombie state when we tried a soft boot? If it was in a funny process state, I'd guess that there was some hardware problem that caused a disk write request to hang up. You can get stuck in uninterruptible disk wait for quite a long time if the disk doesn't respond. regards, tom lane
