Re: Lost Access To Table - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Lost Access To Table
Date
Msg-id 20023.1023233283@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Lost Access To Table  ("Booth, Robert" <Robert_Booth@intuit.com>)
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"Booth, Robert" <Robert_Booth@intuit.com> writes:
> I have a strange problem.  I have lost the ability to query a table.  Every
> time I try to query it the system just hangs.

Please define "hang" --- is the whole system locked up, or do you just
not get a response to that query?  What do you do to recover?

My bet is that there's an open transaction somewhere holding an
exclusive lock on the table ...

            regards, tom lane

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