Re: Why is psql \copy process stuck?

Tom Lane wrote:
> Jack Orenstein <jorenstein@archivas.com> writes:
>
>>I'm not sure I did this right, (it's been a while since I worked with
>>gdb). But here's what I found.
>
>
> Doesn't look like either of those can be trusted very far :-(.  But both
> of them seem to be waiting for input.
>
> What this looks like to me is some kind of networking problem.  Perhaps
> the connection to the remote host got dropped and the local kernel
> hasn't realized it yet?  From memory, we use TCP KEEPALIVE on the
> server socket but not in client-side code, so there's probably not any
> timeout that will trigger in anything like a sane amount of time.
>
> On the other hand, if the remote backend didn't die immediately, it
> *would* have recognized a network timeout and gone away in at most an
> hour or so.  Did you check for any "unexpected EOF on client connection"
> or similar messages in the remote postmaster's log?

I did check, and didn't see any such message.

Jack Orenstein