I have a web application interacting with PostgreSQL (v8.4 & Centos Linux) which suddenly started locking some of the database’s tables. Still have no idea what happened, since the code is not new, has been running several time and has been tested beforehand.
I am trying to see what transaction might have cause it, or if a combination of it with an autovacuum process could have caused it. But in the meantime I would like to unlock the database tables. I tried restarting the postgreSQL service, terminating thus the processes in “idle in transaction” state which were locking the tables but it didn’t work: next time my application performed the same call the tables went locked again.
Any ideas on what can I do to unlock the database gracefully?
