Re: Mysterious 7.0.3 error - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Mysterious 7.0.3 error
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Msg-id 16953.979745481@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Mysterious 7.0.3 error  (Camm Maguire <camm@enhanced.com>)
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Camm Maguire <camm@enhanced.com> writes:
> Greetings!  We have a script updating our database with thousands of
> entries on a daily basis.  To speed up processing, we drop a
> consistency check trigger before the update and recreate it
> afterwards.  Occasionally, we get the following, even though the
> database has no other live connections, and the trigger drop is the
> first statement:

> drop trigger rprices_insupdel on rprices;
> DROP
> ERROR:  RelationClearRelation: relation 160298 modified while in use

Are you doing other schema changes (like other instances of this script)
in parallel?  Or vacuums of system tables?  Those are the cases I recall
that might trigger this problem.

> Any pointers most appreciated!

Live with it until 7.1 :-(.
        regards, tom lane


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