Hi Walter, Why can't you go with a postgres service restart in order to get rid of this error? >DELETE FROM planet_osm_line WHERE osm_id = -166570; >FEHLER: tuple concurrently updated Concurrent transactions can update or delete one or more of those rows before DELETE can lock the rows (at least with the default isolation level READ COMMITTED). This would result in your error message. To defend against this race condition, lock the rows in the SELECT with FOR UPDATE (or other options) Regards, Pavan -- Sent from: http://www.postgresql-archive.org/PostgreSQL-admin-f2076596.html