while you weren't looking, Qing Zhao wrote: [...]
> Is there a way to kill the dead processes/thread without really affect > the PG server? See: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.3/static/postmaster-shutdown.html I have occasionally had to kill -9 a backend, but it's never been pleasant. Avoid if at all possible. /rls -- :wq ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly