I'm sorry I mean not HUP but KILL 2007/10/3, Sergey Konoplev <gray.ru@xxxxxxxxx>: > Hi all, > > I often face with buzz queries (see below). I've looked through pg > manual and huge amount of forums and mail archives and found nothing. > The only solution is to restart postgres server. Moreover I have to > terminate the process using HUP signal to stop the server. > > transport=# select version(); > version > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > PostgreSQL 8.2.4 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) > 3.3.3 (SuSE Linux) > (1 row) > > transport=# select datname, usename, procpid, current_query::char(15), > waiting, query_start from pg_catalog.pg_stat_activity where procpid = > 20530; > datname | usename | procpid | current_query | waiting | > query_start > -----------+------------------+---------+-----------------+---------+------------------------------- > transport | belostotskaya_la | 20530 | select * from c | f | > 2007-10-02 05:05:28.908687+04 > (1 row) > > transport=# select pg_catalog.pg_cancel_backend(20530); > pg_cancel_backend > ------------------- > t > (1 row) > > transport=# select datname, usename, procpid, current_query::char(15), > waiting, query_start from pg_catalog.pg_stat_activity where procpid = > 20530; > datname | usename | procpid | current_query | waiting | > query_start > -----------+------------------+---------+-----------------+---------+------------------------------- > transport | belostotskaya_la | 20530 | select * from c | f | > 2007-10-02 05:05:28.908687+04 > (1 row) > > -- > Regards, > Sergey Konoplev > -- Regards, Sergey Konoplev ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster