It's doing something in slony.  Part of the initial sync operation I
guess.  I guess it must be doing an alter table or reindex or something.
I don't understand why though.

I'll repeat my question on the slony mailing list.  Thanks for the
response.

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Marc

On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 18:48 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Marc Munro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Can someone explain this?  I seem to have a query which is being blocked
> > by a lock.  I was under the impression that selects are never blocked.
> 
> AccessExclusiveLock blocks anything.
> 
> > A query of blocking locks shows this:
> 
> >           object           | trans | pid  |        mode         | blocker
> > ---------------------------+-------+------+---------------------+---------
> >  testdb.address_type       |       | 5754 | AccessExclusiveLock |        
> >  testdb.address_type       |       | 5987 | AccessShareLock     |    5754
> 
> So what's process 5754 doing?
> 
>                       regards, tom lane

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