Dan Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My PG server came to a screeching halt yesterday. Looking at top saw a very > large number of "startup waiting" tasks. A pg_dump was running and one of > my > scripts had issued a CREATE DATABASE command. It looks like the CREATE > DATABASE > was exclusive but was having to wait for the pg_dump to finish, causing a > massive traffic jam of locks behind it.
> Once I killed the pg_dump process, things returned to normal. > Version 8.0.12. Is this a bug? It's operating as designed :-(. 8.1 and later use less strict locking on pg_database during create/drop database. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend