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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: rajan <vgmonnet@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Is there any way that one of the Postgres Background/Utility
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rajan <vgmonnet@gmail.com> writes:
> Can someone throw more light on a process  - which might terminate or stop
> responding?

*You* are the one who needs to throw more light; this question is too
vague to be usefully answerable.  What symptoms are you seeing exactly?
Have you looked into the system monitoring views (e.g. pg_locks) to
see if there are relevant entries?

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Guide_to_reporting_problems

			regards, tom lane