It's doing something in slony. Part of the initial sync operation I guess. I guess it must be doing an alter table or reindex or something. I don't understand why though. I'll repeat my question on the slony mailing list. Thanks for the response. __ Marc On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 18:48 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Marc Munro <marc@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > Can someone explain this? I seem to have a query which is being blocked > > by a lock. I was under the impression that selects are never blocked. > > AccessExclusiveLock blocks anything. > > > A query of blocking locks shows this: > > > object | trans | pid | mode | blocker > > ---------------------------+-------+------+---------------------+--------- > > testdb.address_type | | 5754 | AccessExclusiveLock | > > testdb.address_type | | 5987 | AccessShareLock | 5754 > > So what's process 5754 doing? > > regards, tom lane
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