Re: Is there any way that one of the Postgres Background/Utility process may go down?

rajan <vgmonnet@gmail.com> writes:
> Can someone throw more light on a process  - which might terminate or stop
> responding?

*You* are the one who needs to throw more light; this question is too
vague to be usefully answerable.  What symptoms are you seeing exactly?
Have you looked into the system monitoring views (e.g. pg_locks) to
see if there are relevant entries?

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Guide_to_reporting_problems

            regards, tom lane