Re: Runaway Locks - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Bob Lunney
Subject Re: Runaway Locks
Date
Msg-id 612199.37100.qm@web39702.mail.mud.yahoo.com
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In response to Runaway Locks  (Kamcheung Sham <csham@computer.org>)
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If you're using Tomcat or some other Java container that does connection management restart it and the lock should go
away.

Bob Lunney

--- On Fri, 4/30/10, Kamcheung Sham <csham@computer.org> wrote:

> From: Kamcheung Sham <csham@computer.org>
> Subject: [ADMIN] Runaway Locks
> To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
> Date: Friday, April 30, 2010, 9:03 AM
>
> I was connecting to Postgres 8.3 through JDBC. During my
> unit tests, something when wrong and now leaving with the
> following locks in the db:
>
> arc_dev=# select locktype, mode, relname,
> virtualtransaction, pid from pg_locks l join pg_class c on
> l.relation = c.oid;           
>                
>                
> locktype |       mode   
>    |         
> relname           |
> virtualtransaction | pid 
> ----------+------------------+----------------------------+--------------------+------
>
> relation | AccessShareLock  | pg_locks   
>            
>    | 1/38         
>      | 1816
> relation | RowShareLock     |
> hibernate_sequences        |
> -1/2091555         | 
>    
> relation | RowExclusiveLock | hibernate_sequences 
>       | -1/2091555     
>    |     
> relation | AccessShareLock  | pg_class_oid_index 
>        | 1/38     
>          | 1816
> relation | AccessShareLock  |
> pg_class_relname_nsp_index | 1/38       
>        | 1816
> relation | AccessShareLock  | pg_class   
>            
>    | 1/38         
>      | 1816
> (6 rows)arc_dev=#
>
> The locks on 'hibernate_sequences' is causing any update to
> the locked row to hang. There is currently no running
> database client process anymore (as I've restarted by server
> a few times).
>
> My question is how do i kill the virtual transaction and
> have the locks released?
>
> Thanks,
> kam
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