From: Dan Harris <fbsd@drivefaster.net>
To: PostgreSQL Performance <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Subject: pg_dump blocking create database?
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:58:36 -0600
Message-ID: <46E844EC.5050802@drivefaster.net> (raw)
My PG server came to a screeching halt yesterday. Looking at top saw a very
large number of "startup waiting" tasks. A pg_dump was running and one of my
scripts had issued a CREATE DATABASE command. It looks like the CREATE DATABASE
was exclusive but was having to wait for the pg_dump to finish, causing a
massive traffic jam of locks behind it.
Once I killed the pg_dump process, things returned to normal.
Version 8.0.12. Is this a bug? It also concerns me because my workload is
likely to expose this problem again.
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