On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 01:23:00PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> hubert depesz lubaczewski <depesz@depesz.com> writes:
> > straced postmaster when the problem was happening, and I was opening new
> > connections. strace looks like this:
> > [ backend hangs on semop immediately after reading global/pg_database ]
>
> It looks like something had exclusive lock on the database that new
> connections wanted to connect to. AFAICS the only action in 8.3 that
> would do that would be a DROP DATABASE or RENAME DATABASE. What was
> that other session doing?
verified in logs. there were no alter database or drop database
statements.
Best regards,
depesz
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