Dan Harris <fbsd@drivefaster.net> 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