> For instance, take out exclusive locks on all your tables and just > go to sleep (although I think this is limited by table permissions in > recent PG versions).
This is what I have been worried about. The locks(exclusive locks or content locks in buffers) can be held and stalled. Cant we do anything about it? This is why I contemplated the timeout part. Regards, Atri -- Regards, Atri l'apprenant -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers