Re: Debug advice when postgres connection maxing out

On 2010-11-22 20.41, anypossibility wrote:
> Server: OS X 10.5
> PostgreSQL version: 8.3
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> We experience this connection maxing out once in the full moon.
> The request from client reaches to the server but client never receive response back.
> The queries are very simple update on one record or select one record using primary key (checked current_query from
pg_stat_activity).
> Once this started, I normally disconnect all the client (quit client programs) however, the processes don't die on
postgresserver. 
> So I tried to quit PostgreSQL server using pg_ctl, no response. The only way to terminate is to restart the server (I
willtry kill -s INT next time.. i didn't know better). 
> Is there anything you can tell me from this symptoms or anything I can do to generate useful log to analyze?

If track_activities is on in your postgresql.conf you can check
pg_stats_activity to see what query creates the problem.

Maybe http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/monitoring-stats.html
can give you some more ideas.

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Regards,
Robert "roppert" Gravsjö