Re: possibly outdated info in pg_stat_activity

Rajesh Kumar Mallah wrote:

> PID 3533 does not exists in the system but its still  in pg_stat_activity.
> This is PostgreSQL 8.0.3 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc
> (GCC) 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-49).

This is normal behavior.  Sometimes the packets used to update the stat
collector's information are lost due to the nature of the UDP socket.
You shouldn't see this problem under light load.

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