"Cory Vokey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, I'm seeing a checkpoint process lingering around for ~ 24hrs on > one of my test systems and WAL logs are accumulating. It's running > postgres 7.4.6.
Is the checkpoint process actually doing anything, or just sitting? (strace'ing it would reveal this) If it seems to be just sitting, could you attach to it with gdb and get a stack trace to find out where it's sitting? The only known cause of checkpoints not proceeding in 7.4.* is that long btree CREATE INDEX operations can block them. But 24 hours sounds pretty long for a CREATE INDEX too ... regards, tom lane ---------------------------(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