Thanks Jim and Michael for comments. I'm on pg_repack 1.3.2 (latest sable, no devel version available to check if it is already fixed).
Michael: your memories are fresh and clear :-), yes, it is part of a cleanup rollback. The problem is, that the pgrepack_drop call this statement: DROP TABLE IF EXISTS repack.log_%u CASCADE ...and it collides with this trigger inserting new touples inside the [ frequently_updated_table] in the repack.log_[OID of frequently_updated_table] routine: SELECT 'CREATE TRIGGER z_repack_trigger' ' BEFORE INSERT OR DELETE OR UPDATE ON ' || repack.oid2text($1) || ' FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE repack.repack_trigger(' || '''INSERT INTO repack.log_' || $1 || '(pk, row) VALUES(' || ' CASE WHEN $1 IS NULL THEN NULL ELSE (ROW($1.' || repack.get_index_columns($2, ', $1.') || ')::repack.pk_' || $1 || ') END, $2)'')'; As these two actions are both run by pg_repack, it seems like a bug to me as pg_repack should not be able to deadlock itself, but not 100% sure about this part... On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 3:48 AM, Jim Nasby <jim.na...@bluetreble.com> wrote: > On 11/3/15 7:44 AM, Michael Paquier wrote: > >> I doubt there is anything involving Postgres here. It seems that some >> process is still holding a lock on a relation that is being dropped, >> caused by a race condition in pg_repack code. >> >> >PS: I was trying a mailing list of pg_repack >>> >(http://lists.pgfoundry.org/pipermail/reorg-genera) and github without >>> any >>> >notice. If there is better place to ask, tell me, please. >>> >> I guess you should let those folks time to answer. If I were you I'd >> begin first by letting more time for the repack operation to complete. >> > > Make sure you're on the latest version too. There were some recent commits > aimed at fixing some race conditions. > -- > Jim Nasby, Data Architect, Blue Treble Consulting, Austin TX > Experts in Analytics, Data Architecture and PostgreSQL > Data in Trouble? Get it in Treble! http://BlueTreble.com > -- Bc. Jiří Hlinka Tel.: 725 315 263