Anoop K wrote: > We are hitting a situation where REINDEX is resulting in postgresql to go to > dead lock state for ever. > On debugging the issue we found that > 3 connections are going in to some dead lock state. > > 1. idle in transaction > 2. REINDEX waiting > 3. SELECT waiting > > All these connections are made in the same minute. Once in deadlock state we > are not able to make new > connections to db.(So not able to view pg_locks also). New connections > appears as 'startup waiting' in > ps output. Initially we suspected <idle in transaction> is the result of not > closing a connection. But > it seems it got stuck after creating a connection and is not able to proceed. > > Any clues ..
Check the contents of pg_locks: What locks does the "idle in transaction" session hold? Who holds the locks that block SELECT, REINDEX and new connections? Turn on log_statement='all' to see what the "idle in transaction" session did since it started. Yours, Laurenz Albe -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
