On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 12:36 PM, <dan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > In this case, Postgres had been started in the foreground on a > > terminal, so I went to that terminal, and did a ctrl-c. Eventually, > > postgres stopped, but the terminal wouldn't respond either - and I had > > to close it. > > Just out of curiosity, could you maybe have XOFF'd the terminal? I've had > cases in the past where Postgres got unhappy and froze when it couldn't > write logging information to stderr. (Though, granted, in the cases I hit > the server's stderr was redirected to a pipe that was full, so it's not > 100% analogous) Its certainly possible that something "interesting" happened to the terminal. We do have an issue with a KVM switch on this machine that sometimes causes all sorts of unpredictable random garbage input to hit the screen when you switch to the system. If I can't reproduce the problem (which so far I have not been able to) I'll probably let it go, perhaps naively believeing that some terminal issue set off the chain of events. Thanks, Dan
