On 2015-07-20 13:06:51 +0200, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Spiros Ioannou wrote: > > Hi Tom, > > thank you for your input. The DB was stuck again, I attach all logs and > > stack traces. > > > > A stack trace from a COMMIT, an INSERT, an UPDATE, the wal writer, the > > writer, and a sequence. > > > > Stracing the commit was stuck at: semop(3145761, {{12, -1, 0}}, 1 > > Hmm, isn't this an indication of problems in the WAL insertion logic? > Looks to me like there are deadlocks using lwlocks. Hm. The problem seems to be the WaitXLogInsertionsToFinish() call in XLogFlush(). Spiros, I guess you have commit_delay enabled? If so, does disabling it "fix" the issue? Regards, Andres -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general