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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>
Cc: Robert Burgholzer <rburghol@vt.edu>
Cc: Burgholzer, Robert (DEQ) <Robert.Burgholzer@deq.virginia.gov>
Cc: Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: diagnosing a db crash - server exit code 2
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2011 19:10:45 -0400
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Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com> writes:
> On 10/03/2011 10:10 AM, Robert Burgholzer wrote:
>> FWIW - I am currently trying this while tracing the process that I
>> assume is the postmaster (/usr/bin/postgres -D /home/postgres/data),
>> since this process number indicates that it was recently restarted -
>> although the other PG processes, writer, wal writer, autovacuum, stats
>> collector all have their older pids indicating that they still survive.

> Sounds like you are attaching to the wrong process. Try something like
> the below...

No need to guess about it ... use "select pg_backend_pid();" and then
attach to that process.  (BTW, the "postmaster" is the parent process.
The one you want to debug is a backend.)

			regards, tom lane



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