hubert depesz lubaczewski <depesz@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > straced postmaster when the problem was happening, and I was opening new > connections. strace looks like this: > [ backend hangs on semop immediately after reading global/pg_database ] It looks like something had exclusive lock on the database that new connections wanted to connect to. AFAICS the only action in 8.3 that would do that would be a DROP DATABASE or RENAME DATABASE. What was that other session doing? 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