Ben Chobot <be...@silentmedia.com> writes:
> We have recently discovered a problem with our slony-1 cluster of 8.1.19 
> installs. Specifically, we are unable to vacuum a table on the master 
> node; vacuum always hangs on the same index of the same table. If we do a 
> slony switchover and make the other node the master, then *it* will become 
> unable to vacuum that index. Vacuum on the slave always works quickly and 
> without issue. Vacuum does not hang anywhere else.

> When we tried to strace the vacuuming backend, it appeared as if it was 
> trying to acquire a lock, but pg_lock showed nothing unexpected for that 
> index.

Try attaching to the process with gdb and getting a stack trace.

Also ask on the slony lists if anyone's seen anything like this.  I
don't know a reason for slony to have any effect like that, but there's
got to be *something* weird going on.

                        regards, tom lane

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