Hi, we are running Docker based Discourse 2.7.7 with a very large user base. After upgrading from 2.4.2 to 2.7.7, we are experiencing that some Postgres process are stuck at 100% CPU. Further investigation results that such queries seem to cause the problem: discourse_prod=# select pid, datid, que…

We’ve found the issue was caused by a custom SQL query in a user badge. So this is not an upstream issue. Thanks.

Postgres has 100% CPU for large databases, Discourse 2.7.7

pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) August 30, 2021, 1:11pm 5

I suspect that you’ll also want to make sure that you vacuum and reindex as described in PostgreSQL 13 update.

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