2011/9/12 Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@xxxxxxxxx>: > > It seems odd that you could not create a temp sequence but you were > able to reindex the entire database. did you confirm you were > blocking on a non-granted lock? I could revacuum/reindex all stuff, only if I had to do the system catalogues first. That seemed a bit suspicious. Also, I had to stop all other connections - because any other locked transaction would prevent it from going on. Oh, the last thing - pg_cancel_backend() couldn't kill the locked backend. I had to restart the whole postgresql using -m immediate. Odd stuff indeed, as I was hoping postgresql will clean things like locks on recovery from crash. Never happened to me with 8.3 -- GJ -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general