Re: postgres process got stuck in "notify interrupt waiting" status

From: Aleksey Tsalolikhin <atsaloli(dot)tech(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: postgres process got stuck in "notify interrupt waiting" status
Date: 2012-09-05 02:25:38
Message-ID: CA+jMWofF0u9DHBGKSEo=Cn-XpCc97TqLEVX_KRBPGRTt1ZMEHQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 7:21 PM, John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com> wrote:
> On 09/04/12 7:09 PM, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote:
>>
>> BTW, after I signalled TERM, the process status changed from
>>
>> notify interrupt waiting
>>
>> to
>>
>> notify interrupt waiting waiting
>>
>> which I thought looked kind of odd.
>>
>> Then I signalled KILL.
>
>
> was this a client process or a postgres process? kill -9 on postgres
> processes can easily trigger data corruption.

This was a postgres process. i certainly won't signal KILL anymore to
postgres processes, thanks for that warning, John.

Aleksey

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