"Ross Elliott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been playing with this a bit more by switching to 8.1.3 with > postgis 1.1.3 and still get the locking problem.
Well, that's dang odd. PID 9403 seems to be the problem, because it's got extend lock on topoarea_idx2, which is a lock that should be held for only a *very* short time. Apparently it's blocked on an LWLock inside either ReadBuffer or LockBuffer --- but the LockBuffer should certainly not block because ReadBuffer should have returned a page that never existed until just now, and hence couldn't be locked by anyone else. Even more interesting, topoarea_idx2 is a plain btree, which shouldn't be affected at all by postgis. And none of this code has changed much recently. Can you attach to 9403 with a debugger and get a stack trace to confirm exactly where it's blocked? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq