Re: [HACKERS] posmaster failed under high load

On Wed, 5 May 1999, Tom Lane wrote:

> Nope, that theory is all wet --- the backend definitely does 
> PS_SET_STATUS("idle") before it waits for a query.  Something is
> *really* peculiar here, since your backtrace shows that the backend
> has reached the point of waiting for client input.  It is not possible
> to get there without having done PS_SET_STATUS.  So why does the process
> still show up as "(postmaster)" in ps?  Something is flaky about your
> system's support of ps status setting, I think.

You never altered the task_struct, and so it's still 'postmaster' there.
Note the W... the process is paged out, so the argv is not available!

Taral