On 12/16/05, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> 2005-08-09 17:14 tgl
> * src/backend/postmaster/pgstat.c: Make backends that are reading
> the pgstats file verify each backend PID against the PGPROC array.
> Anything in the file that isn't in PGPROC gets rejected as being a
> stale entry. This should solve complaints about stale entries in
> pg_stat_activity after a BETERM message has been dropped due to
> overload.
>
must have missed that one. thanks - we are moving to 8.1 anyway (50-150%
increase in performance for some specific tasks!).
depesz