Ibrahim Harrani <ibrahim.harrani@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I got a deadlock while vacuuming all databases with vacuumdb command. > vacuumdb: vacuuming of database "mydb" failed: ERROR: deadlock detected > DETAIL: Process 1294 waits for AccessExclusiveLock on relation 2662 of > database ; blocked by process 1807. > Process 1807 waits for AccessShareLock on relation 1259 of database 16389; > blocked by process 1294. vacuumdb -f you mean? An ordinary vacuum wouldn't be trying to take AccessExclusiveLock. It might be that you have an instance of a failure that was identified just a couple weeks ago: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2010-01/msg00199.php regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin