Re: Postgres partially hang after inactivity - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Marco Maccaferri
Subject Re: Postgres partially hang after inactivity
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Msg-id 4A030CAA.7080504@maccasoft.com
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In response to Re: Postgres partially hang after inactivity  (Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>)
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On 06/05/2009 21:39 Merlin Moncure ha scritto:

> probably, you had a transaction sitting around that is not closed (to
> see: select * from pg_stat_activity).
>
> the alter table is waiting for that transaction to finish, but itself
> blocks all _new_ transactions (alter table acquires a strong lock on
> the table).   Cancel the alter table query or the query that is
> blocking your alter table.  Again, check pg_stat_activity and
> ungranted locks (select * from pg_locks where granted = false).

By querying these tables I found that the connection pooling was not
setup properly and that there were few unclosed sessions hanging around.
Thank you for your help.

Regards,
Marco.

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