Joe Uhl <joe...@gmail.com> writes: > On Jul 8, 2009, at 2:41 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >> What exactly did you do to "kill" those processes? Do you remember >> whether any of them happened to have PID 10453?
> I used "kill pid1 pid2 pid3 ..." (no -9) as root. Unfortunately I do > not recall if that pid was one of the processes I killed and not > enough scrollback in this screen to see. It is a > ShareUpdateExclusiveLock lock though and I definitely only killed > vacuum/analyze pids so thinking there is a very high chance of 10453 > being one of them. Hmm. In any case that shouldn't have led to a lock left hanging. Assuming that it was a regular and not autovacuum, do you know what the exact command would have been? (In particular, FULL, ANALYZE, etc options) regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs