Joe Uhl <joeuhl@gmail.com> writes:
> On Jul 8, 2009, at 2:41 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> What exactly did you do to "kill" those processes? Do you remember
>> whether any of them happened to have PID 10453?
> I used "kill pid1 pid2 pid3 ..." (no -9) as root. Unfortunately I do
> not recall if that pid was one of the processes I killed and not
> enough scrollback in this screen to see. It is a
> ShareUpdateExclusiveLock lock though and I definitely only killed
> vacuum/analyze pids so thinking there is a very high chance of 10453
> being one of them.
Hmm. In any case that shouldn't have led to a lock left hanging.
Assuming that it was a regular and not autovacuum, do you know what
the exact command would have been? (In particular, FULL, ANALYZE,
etc options)
regards, tom lane
