Re: Alter table never finishes - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Leonardo M. Ramé
Subject Re: Alter table never finishes
Date
Msg-id 20130730172921.GK7183@leonardo-laptop
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In response to Re: Alter table never finishes  (bricklen <bricklen@gmail.com>)
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Re: Alter table never finishes
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On 2013-07-30 10:26:39 -0700, bricklen wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Leonardo M. Ramé <l.rame@griensu.com>wrote:
>
> >
> > select pg_cancel_backend(pid) from pg_stat_activity where pid <>
> > pg_backend_pid();
> >
> > And it returned this:
> >
> > pg_cancel_backend
> > -------------------
> >  t
> >  t
> > (2 rows)
> >
> > But when I execute my update table command, it still never ends...Any
> > hint?.
> >
> >
> Sounds like locking issues. In another session -- other than the one you
> are trying to run your update, what does the following query show?
>
> SELECT
>     waiting.locktype           AS waiting_locktype,
>     waiting.relation::regclass AS waiting_table,
>     waiting_stm.query          AS waiting_query,
>     waiting.mode               AS waiting_mode,
>     waiting.pid                AS waiting_pid,
>     other.locktype             AS other_locktype,
>     other.relation::regclass   AS other_table,
>     other_stm.query            AS other_query,
>     other.mode                 AS other_mode,
>     other.pid                  AS other_pid,
>     other.granted              AS other_granted
> FROM pg_catalog.pg_locks AS waiting
> JOIN pg_catalog.pg_stat_activity AS waiting_stm ON (waiting_stm.pid =
> waiting.pid)
> JOIN pg_catalog.pg_locks AS other ON ((waiting."database" =
> other."database" AND waiting.relation  = other.relation) OR
> waiting.transactionid = other.transactionid)
> JOIN pg_catalog.pg_stat_activity AS other_stm ON (other_stm.pid = other.pid)
> WHERE NOT waiting.granted
> AND waiting.pid <> other.pid;

Sorry bricklen, I've killed all idle connections with "kill -9 <PID>",
then I was able to execute the alter table.


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