Re: Status of gist locking in 8.1.3?

Francisco Reyes <lists@stringsutils.com> writes:
> As I write this I am creating an index with gist and trying to do a select
> on the table froze. Using Postgresql 8.1.3

CREATE INDEX shouldn't block any concurrent SELECT, regardless of which
index AM is involved.  Can you provide a reproducible test case?

            regards, tom lane