Re: ANALYZE locks pg_listener in EXCLUSIVE for long time?

Philip Warner <pjw@rhyme.com.au> writes:
> Does this mean that ANALYZE will take an exclusive lock on pg_listener 
> until the ANALYZE finishes? Or is there some other cause?

ANALYZE does not take an exclusive lock on anything.  However, the
async.c functions want AccessExclusiveLock on pg_listener, so they
quite possibly would get blocked by ANALYZE's not-so-exclusive lock.

Possibly we could reduce the strength of the lock taken by the async.c
functions ... I haven't thought hard about it.  The long-term answer is
certainly a wholesale rewrite of the listen/notify mechanism.
        regards, tom lane