Pain point · Reliability & bugs · Blocks work
Frequent Postgres deadlocks after upgrading to Prefect 3.3.1
2 source threads · first seen 2025-04 · last seen 2026-01
Summary
A Helm-deployed Prefect server on EKS with RDS Postgres started hitting frequent deadlock errors in the message consume loop after the upgrade.
- Affects
- teams running Prefect server on EKS with RDS
Evidence
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“when I run multiple background services version 3.6.9 I get this exact err”
“Lately, we've been experiencing frequent deadlocks after upgrading to Prefect 3.3.1”