"Gurjeet Singh" <singh.gurjeet@gmail.com> writes:
> I saw a strange behaviour on one of the production boxes. The
> pg_stat_activity shows a process as <IDLE> and yet 'waiting' !!! On top of
> it (understandably, since its IDLE), there are no entries for this pid in
> pg_locks!
Hmm, I can reproduce something like this by aborting a wait for lock.
It seems the problem is that WaitOnLock() is ignoring its own good
advice, assuming that it can do cleanup work after waiting.
regards, tom lane
