Re: ANALYZE locks pg_listener in EXCLUSIVE for long

At 01:30 AM 4/05/2004, Tom Lane wrote:
>can only occur if other
>transactions running parallel to the ANALYZE perform sufficient catalog
>updating activity to fill the sinval message queue.  And there must also
>be at least one long-term-idle backend, so that the queue doesn't get
>drained.

Sounds quite likely; usually seems to occur at 'shoulder' load times; lots 
of updates still happening (several each second) and a server process pool 
that is larger than necessary to handle the load.

I'll replace all:
    heap_openr(ListenerRelationName, AccessExclusiveLock);

with
    heap_openr(ListenerRelationName, ExclusiveLock);

and see how it goes.

Thanks for the help.



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