On Nov 27, 2007 4:52 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > You didn't happen to note what 9293 was doing did you? It's living > fairly dangerously in any case by trying to acquire exclusive lock > when it already holds a bunch of other lower-level locks; that's a > recipe for deadlock if I ever saw one. > > regards, tom lane > Ah ok, 9293 is a triggerd process and tries to "ALTER TABLE ... DISABLE TRIGGER (other trigger)" and so implicitly tries to acquire an AccessExclusiveLock and runs in a deadlock? So is better not to use "ALTER TABLE ... " in triggerfunctions, because there are always existing lower-level locks? regards, thomas ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org/