On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 10:56 PM, tamanna madaan <tamanna.madan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi All > > I am using a cluster setup with two nodes in it. Replication between two > nodes is being done through slony. > > Postgres version is 8.1.2 and slony version is 1.1.5 . > > I am running an operation that does thousands of update/inserts/delete on > some tables. While running update query on a > > particular table let say <abc> , it gives error “attempted to lock invisible > tuple” and fails. This update query is supposed to update > > hundreds of record. Sometimes it gives the error while running this update > query and sometimes not. I have seen postgres logs of two > > instances when it fails due to “attempted to lock invisible tuple” error , > in these two instances while it was doing an update on <abc> table, > > another query was going on the same table which was updating a particular > record. Can this (two updates at the same time on the same table) be the > reason for > > this error in some way ( just a guess) . If not, then what can be the > reason of this error ?? Not sure what the cause is but have you tried updating to the latest 8.1.x version? -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general