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Subject: Re: Major performance problem after upgrade from 8.3 to 8.4 
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Gerhard Wiesinger <lists@wiesinger.com> writes:
> Problem is that PostgreSQL doesn't listen and take much CPU and also disk 
> I/O. 8.3 was shut down cleanly.

Hm, you sure about that?  What's in the postmaster log?

			regards, tom lane