Re: deadlock while re-indexing table - Mailing list pgsql-general

Dave Cramer wrote:
> reindex table user_profile;
> ERROR:  deadlock detected
> DETAIL:  Process 32450 waits for AccessExclusiveLock on relation
> 194689112 of database 163880909; blocked by process 31236.
> Process 31236 waits for AccessShareLock on relation 194689110 of
> database 163880909; blocked by process 32450.

I don't find this very surprising ... I would suggest using "reindex
index" for each index instead.  I'm not sure if REINDEX TABLE is
supposed to be deadlock-free.

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