Re: postgres deadlocks

On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 06:32:48PM -0400, Joseph Shraibman wrote:
> But *something* got idle in trasaction.
>
> Even more fustrating it seemed that my whole database was locked, not
> just one table, and what could have locked the whole thing except
> vacuum?

My guess is that if vacuum was processing say pg_shadow when it locked, that
could prevent other people from logging in. Strange though, because vacuum
checks for all locks *before* actually doing anything, so vacuum would be
waiting, not actually locked.

Kill the transaction with kill -INT is the way out.

You should find out what exactly was being updated that stop
mid-transaction.

HTH,
--
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>
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