Re: killing process question

On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Tom Lane wrote:

> "Johnson, Shaunn" <SJohnson6(at)bcbsm(dot)com> writes:
> > --generally speaking, how long should this run?
>
> > (gdb) attach 3488
> > Attaching to program: /usr/bin/postgres, process 3488
>
> Not very long --- it takes a couple seconds, for me, on a machine that's
> not fast by today's standards.
>
> > --i know i should be patient, but i'm trying to figure
> > --out if this should take more than 20 minutes or if
> > --i've done something wrong. (OR, should that be postmaster
> > --and not postgres in the above line?)
>
> postgres is correct. But are you sure that you are pointing to the same
> postgres executable that the process is running? Perhaps gdb could get
> confused if you point to the wrong version.

Another shot in the dark - could the process have blocked the relevent signal
(SIGTRAP) sent by the debugger?

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