Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A293D64FD4B for ; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 09:27:30 -0400 (AST) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 14654-02 for ; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 09:27:28 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from lists.commandprompt.com (host-159.commandprompt.net [207.173.203.159]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 156C264FD14 for ; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 09:27:27 -0400 (AST) Received: from perhan.alvh.no-ip.org (200-85-216-131.bk4-dsl.surnet.cl [200.85.216.131]) (authenticated bits=0) by lists.commandprompt.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id mBMDWamG022870 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 22 Dec 2008 05:32:39 -0800 Received: by perhan.alvh.no-ip.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id AE00B47CCD; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:27:21 -0300 (CLST) Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:27:21 -0300 From: Alvaro Herrera To: Tom Lane Cc: Laszlo Nagy , pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: Re: rebellious pg stats collector (reopened case) Message-ID: <20081222132721.GC10220@alvh.no-ip.org> References: <49479876.8040607@shopzeus.com> <20081216134542.GH4741@alvh.no-ip.org> <494B614C.5060808@shopzeus.com> <20081219130446.GC4278@alvh.no-ip.org> <494F67D2.3090406@shopzeus.com> <6938.1229952228@sss.pgh.pa.us> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6938.1229952228@sss.pgh.pa.us> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0 (lists.commandprompt.com [207.173.203.159]); Mon, 22 Dec 2008 05:32:39 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=none X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200812/175 X-Sequence-Number: 31008 Tom Lane wrote: > I wonder whether your tracing tool is affecting the result of > getppid(). Most people would consider that a bug in the tracing tool. Probably having a close look at the PPID column in ps or top during the truss run would prove this. Still, the actual problem being debugged is something else. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.