Jan de Visser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Furtermore, it does not happen on Linux machines, both single CPU and dual
> CPU, nor on single CPU windows machines. We can only reproduce on a dual CPU
> windows machine, and if we take one CPU out, it does not happen.
> ...
> Which showed me that several transactions where waiting for a particular row
> which was locked by another transaction. This transaction had no pending
> locks (so no deadlock), but just does not complete and hence never
> relinquishes the lock.
Is the stuck transaction still consuming CPU time, or just stopped?
Is it possible to get a stack trace from the stuck process? I dunno
if you've got anything gdb-equivalent under Windows, but that's the
first thing I'd be interested in ...
regards, tom lane
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