Re: Stats collector frozen?

Tom,

Did this information shed any light on what the problem might be? Any
solution or workaround?

Thanks!
Jeremy Haile

On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 14:19:05 -0500, "Jeremy Haile" <jhaile(at)fastmail(dot)fm>
said:
> pgstat.stat was last updated 1/22 12:25pm - there is no pgstat.tmp.
>
> Coincidentally (I think not) - the last auto-analyze was performed at
> 2007-01-22 12:24:11.424-05.
>
> The logs for 1/22 are empty - so no errors or anything like that to give
> clues...
>
> Thanks!
> Jeremy Haile
>
>
> On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 14:00:52 -0500, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> said:
> > "Jeremy Haile" <jhaile(at)fastmail(dot)fm> writes:
> > > The stats collector appears to still be running, since I can see a
> > > postgres.exe process with -forkcol. However, I never notice it using
> > > I/O or CPU usage. Also, querying the pg_stat_user_tables view shows no
> > > change in table stats even for tables that change very frequently.
> >
> > Is $PGDATA/global/pgstat.stat getting updated? (watch the file mod time
> > at least) Do you see any pgstat.tmp file in there?
> >
> > regards, tom lane
>
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