Re: Query stucked in pg_stat_activity

Oh, I've forgot to mention that the DB is version 8.0.3 running on
linux.

Cheers,
Csaba.

On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 15:19, Csaba Nagy wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a postgres system where we just migrated a fairly big data set.
> The application accessing it is a cluster of servers which do burst-like
> processing, i.e. when they have some work to do, it will be distributed
> in the cluster and the data base will be under fairly high load.
> On our first test run everything went fine, the only strange thing is a
> row in the pg_stat_activity, which has a row about a query which is long
> gone, the process pointed by the procpid field is not existing.
> I've executed a "select pg_stat_reset();" as superuser, and all went
> away except the offending row... I wonder what can cause this behavior,
> and how to get rid of it ? I'm using the pg_stat_activity view to detect
> long running queries, and I do expect a few more to pop up in time...
>
> Thanks,
> Csaba.
>
>
>
>
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