William Yu <wyu(at)talisys(dot)com> writes:
> Doing a ps -ef | grep postgres, I will see something like:
> root 17034 1 0 21:41 ? 00:00:00 gdb -q -x /dev/stdin
> postgres 9131
> postgres 9131 2712 0 20:31 ? 00:00:00 postgres: postgres
> netdata [local] VACUUM
So where did the gdb come from?
> The strange thing is I cannot kill the dead process.
It's not dead --- gdb has got it by the throat.
regards, tom lane