On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 23:31, deep ... wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm running a web application supported by postgresql 7.4 on an unix
> system. The management part of application requires reindexing of
> tables. I see that whenever reindexing runs with the while the table
> is getting updated/inserted into, reindexing hangs. I understand this
> is because reindexing requires an exclusive lock on the table.
>
>
> Is there a possible workaround? What else can I do other than stopping
> the insertion/update while reindex runs?
What problem are you trying to solve? Perhaps something other than
reindex might work.
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