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

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Alter table never finishes
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Msg-id 20130730173505.GR14652@eldon.alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: Alter table never finishes  (Leonardo M. Ramé <l.rame@griensu.com>)
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Leonardo M. Ramé escribió:

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

I don't think that was such a great idea.  Once you killed the first
one, postmaster terminated all other server processes, run recovery, and
restarted service afresh.  By the time you got to the second PID, it
wouldn't have been there anyway.

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