Re: BUG #15036: Un-killable queries Hanging in BgWorkerShutdown

From: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: David Kohn <djk447(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BUG #15036: Un-killable queries Hanging in BgWorkerShutdown
Date: 2018-02-11 02:27:30
Message-ID: CAEepm=3-gmmBQX8C5NLvUd4=9M6GXKB7kZhbi4uAmfpcDqhfNw@mail.gmail.com
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On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 2:58 PM, David Kohn <djk447(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> I tried to get a stacktrace, but because nothing's crashing normal
> stacktraces don't happen, tried profiling with perf, sampling specifically
> the procs that are stuck, but because they're not doing anything there's no
> samples...so stacktrace not helping so much, thoughts on how to get around
> that?

You can get a backtrace from a running program with by connecting to
it with gdb -p PID, then bt for the backtrace. You might need to
install the symbols package if you only see addresses (on debianoid
systems postgresql-10-dbgsym, not sure what it's called on RHELish
systems).

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Getting_a_stack_trace_of_a_running_PostgreSQL_backend_on_Linux/BSD

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Thomas Munro
http://www.enterprisedb.com

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