I see RowExclusiveLocks for all the jdbc inserts Real question is: Why do the INSERTS go into wait state as soon as the lock table statement is issued on the parent? -----Original Message----- From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 11:10 AM To: Sriram Dandapani Cc: Matthew T. O'Connor; pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [ADMIN] autovacuum ignore tables "Sriram Dandapani" <sdandapani@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I tried your code with the lock table followed by drop. > The lock table goes into a wait state AND all INSERTS (even new ones > coming in) go into a wait state. Well, it's waiting for something. Try looking in pg_locks to see which transaction is blocking it. regards, tom lane