Steve Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> I tracked down the process that was "idle in transaction" and it >>> was a pg_dump process running on another machine. >> >> What was it waiting on?
> Beats the heck out of me. We periodically dump some selected small > tables via a script using: > pg_dump -i -h $dbhost -U $dbuser -t $dumptable > dumpfile > It's very vanilla and generally works fine but sometimes (perhaps 1 > per 1000+ runs) ends up idle in transaction. I'm going to take a much > closer look at pg_locks next time it happens. If it is "idle in transaction" and not "<something> waiting" then it is not blocked waiting for someone's lock, so pg_locks is unlikely to yield the answer. I think it's got to be something funny on the pg_dump side. Or maybe a communications problem? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])