Alter table command for renaming table is getting stuck.

    I am working on a data warehousing project, our system is handling huge amount of live data. 

We get data in form of events.

Frequency of events goes up to 1000 events/second. average frequency is 200 events/second.

We are using libpg to connect pg-server and insert each event into database tables.

As a part of data warehousing I am rotating table every 50000 records.

Also to reduce overhead I commit a transaction after inserting 1000 records.

Problem I am facing is as follows

While rotating (renaming) a table the "alter table" command is stuck and whole system is blocked.

Blocking is also observed while "creating new table" after rename command is finished.

No other process/query is accessing this table until rotation is done.

The problem occurs twice a day, rest of the time it is working fine.

I could not find the cause. 

Please give me suggestions / solution

Thanks in advance.

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Dhaval.