On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 01:03:55PM -0500, Adam Kavan wrote: > I have found the problem (I think) below is the list of all the locks > pending on the relation. The relation is a hash index on the table that is > being INSERT'd rapidly. From what I can see pid 10024 and 10025 both have > an ExclusiveLock on the index, and they both are waiting to get an > ExclusiveLock on the relation.
Oh, so this is the problem. Truth is hash indexes in Postgres are known to have poor concurrency, though I didn't expect them to be subject to deadlocks... you should change the hash index to a btree index and the problem will "go away"; you will also probably see a performance improvement if there's concurrent insertion and access. BTrees are way more developed than hashes. -- Alvaro Herrera (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) "The ability to monopolize a planet is insignificant next to the power of the source" ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])