Re: adding foreign key constraint locks up table - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: adding foreign key constraint locks up table
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Msg-id AANLkTik8QyPfHnmALKtm4WGtTb7tDqzO4BTGYE475UHW@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: adding foreign key constraint locks up table  (kakarukeys <kakarukeys@gmail.com>)
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On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 2:09 AM, kakarukeys <kakarukeys@gmail.com> wrote:
> As requested, here are some output of the investigative queries, run
> when the problem occurred. I could see some locks there, but I don't
> know why the alter table add constraint takes so long of time.

It's pretty clear from the output you posted that it's waiting for a
lock, but you didn't include the full contents of pg_stat_activity and
pg_locks, so we can't see who has the lock it's waiting for.  Tom's
guess upthread is a good bet, though.

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Robert Haas
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