Greg Smith <gsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, 27 Oct 2009, Tom Lane wrote: >> The issue I can see is that we might never be able to complete any >> truncation if there's a lot of potentially removable pages and a pretty >> steady flow of conflicting lock attempts. But that would result in >> failure to remove bloat, not stoppage of conflicting queries. > That's exactly it. That might be exactly what's worrying *you*, but my point was that it doesn't appear to explain the OP's complaint. Whatever issue he has got is something else. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general