On 30 November 2012 15:57, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx> writes:Current release in that branch is 8.4.14. (By this time next week
> We am running a web application on ubuntu 10.10 using postgres 8.4.3.
it'll be 8.4.15.) You are missing a lot of bug fixes:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/release.html
Sorry I reported that incorrectly. 8.4.3 was initially installed but the package system has kept it up to date. Currently it is in fact 8.4.14.
> Trying to interpret this, does this mean that the autovacuum process isPossibly. Looking into the pg_locks view would tell you more.
> holding a lock which is required tn order to complete the select
> query?
Ok. I guess I will have to wait for it to lock up again to do this.
regards, tom lane
