On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 8:28 AM, Dan Armbrust
<daniel.armbrust.list@gmail.com> wrote:
> But there is no user2. I _know_ I am the only user of this database.
>
> So how can User 1 create a race condition by himself?
>
> Or is this something PostgreSQL is doing internally (like vacuum) ?
>
> Do I really just have to keep trying the DROP command N times in a
> row, until it decides it wants to work? That really doesn't seem
> right.
Could be autovac. Easiest way is to use psql -c to get a list of pids
that are connected and kill the backends (just kill, not kill -9) then
try to drop it again. loop through that every few seconds and it
should work.
