[ADMIN] Strange deadlock error last night

2009-01-13 Thread Scott Whitney
I'm about to begin researching this, but I thought I'd throw this out there and see if there are any quick responses. Last night, I got this: Jan 13 03:31:28 db01 postgres[23537]: [140-2] DETAIL: Process 23537 waits for AccessShareLock on relation 1260 of database 0; blocked by process 8.

Re: [ADMIN] Strange deadlock error last night

2009-01-13 Thread Tom Lane
Scott Whitney swhit...@journyx.com writes: Last night, I got this: Jan 13 03:31:28 db01 postgres[23537]: [140-2] DETAIL: Process 23537 waits for AccessShareLock on relation 1260 of database 0; blocked by process 8. Jan 13 03:31:28 db01 postgres[23537]: [140-3] Process 8 waits for

Re: [ADMIN] Strange deadlock error last night

2009-01-13 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Tom Lane wrote: Scott Whitney swhit...@journyx.com writes: It ended up locking up about 250 customer databases until I restarted the postmaster. This is version 8.1.4. Upgrading right now (even to a minor rev) is not really an option. Not related to the immediate problem, but: you

Re: [ADMIN] Strange deadlock error last night

2009-01-13 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Scott Whitney swhit...@journyx.com wrote: It ended up locking up about 250 customer databases until I restarted the postmaster. This is version 8.1.4. Upgrading right now (even to a minor rev) is not really an option. This box has been up and running for 306

Re: [ADMIN] Strange deadlock error last night

2009-01-13 Thread Scott Whitney
deadlock error last night On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Scott Whitney swhit...@journyx.com wrote: It ended up locking up about 250 customer databases until I restarted the postmaster. This is version 8.1.4. Upgrading right now (even to a minor rev) is not really an option. This box has been