Thanks for the thoughts on what to check. Unfortunately, the priority of the people responding to the incidents has been to get the system live again. I will add these items to a list that, hopefully, will be run through prior to restarting Postgres.

Achilleas Mantzios wrote:
Did you check for locks?
SELECT * from pg_locks;
SELECT l.locktype,c.relname,l.pid,l.mode from pg_locks l,pg_class c where 
l.relation=c.oid ;
Were you able to issue other select commands during the problem? Were you able 
to start psql and do some simple command?
Have you ruled out the possibility of the application being locked for other 
reasons? (limits, network failure,etc....

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