Re: [GENERAL] Warning: you don't own a lock of type ExclusiveLock

2012-02-09 Thread Gary Chambers
Chris, pg_advisory_unlock (along with the other functions in that family) works on a set of mythical objects with no actual meaning beyond what the database administrator chooses to give them. Thank you for your excellent description. I have never used the advisory lock functionality that Pos

Re: [GENERAL] Warning: you don't own a lock of type ExclusiveLock

2012-02-09 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 2:35 AM, Gary Chambers wrote: > Is it possible that > Postgres is not receiving a meaningful response with respect to > ExclusiveLock locking (i.e. unable to really obtain an ExclusiveLock) due to > VM "disk" residing on an NFS mount? pg_advisory_unlock (along with the oth

Re: [GENERAL] Warning: you don't own a lock of type ExclusiveLock

2012-02-09 Thread Gary Chambers
Chris (et al.), Thanks for the reply. I have not replied sooner because I was hoping to get some more feedback from the list. I have a recently-migrated Pg cluster running 8.4.7 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client release 5.7 (Tikanga) in a VMware VM that is logging the subject warning. The ap

Re: [GENERAL] Warning: you don't own a lock of type ExclusiveLock

2012-02-03 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 8:27 AM, Gary Chambers wrote: > All, > > I have a recently-migrated Pg cluster running 8.4.7 on Red Hat Enterprise > Linux Client release 5.7 (Tikanga) in a VMware VM that is logging the > subject warning.  The application code is considerably old (deployed back in > the 7.4

[GENERAL] Warning: you don't own a lock of type ExclusiveLock

2012-02-03 Thread Gary Chambers
All, I have a recently-migrated Pg cluster running 8.4.7 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client release 5.7 (Tikanga) in a VMware VM that is logging the subject warning. The application code is considerably old (deployed back in the 7.4 days, I believe) and the message is preceded by a call to selec