Re: ALTER table taking ages... - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Gaetano Mendola
Subject Re: ALTER table taking ages...
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Msg-id c1q1p4$f2d$1@floppy.pyrenet.fr
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In response to ALTER table taking ages...  (Rajesh Kumar Mallah <mallah@trade-india.com>)
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Rajesh Kumar Mallah wrote:
>
> Greetings!
>
> It takes ages to drop a constraint from one of my tables
> [ table details at the end ] I cannot insert into it also.
>
> I know  pg_dump is not running and no other query is accessing the table.
>  Can anyone help me debugging this problem? Can anyone explain the
> following entires in pg_locks where relation and database
> are both null.
>
> tradein_clients=# SELECT * from pg_locks where mode='ExclusiveLock' and
> granted is true;
> +----------+----------+-------------+-------+---------------+---------+
> | relation | database | transaction |  pid  |     mode      | granted |
> +----------+----------+-------------+-------+---------------+---------+
> |     NULL |     NULL |   116230313 | 19898 | ExclusiveLock | t       |
> |     NULL |     NULL |   116230309 | 24779 | ExclusiveLock | t       |
> |     NULL |     NULL |   116230267 | 24780 | ExclusiveLock | t       |
> |     NULL |     NULL |   116230303 | 24764 | ExclusiveLock | t       |
> |     NULL |     NULL |   116230302 | 24751 | ExclusiveLock | t       |
> |     NULL |     NULL |   116230308 | 24767 | ExclusiveLock | t       |
> |     NULL |     NULL |   116230274 | 24761 | ExclusiveLock | t       |
> |     NULL |     NULL |   116230306 | 24752 | ExclusiveLock | t       |
> |     NULL |     NULL |   116230312 | 23222 | ExclusiveLock | t       |
> |     NULL |     NULL |   116230290 | 24768 | ExclusiveLock | t       |
> |     NULL |     NULL |   116230292 | 24776 | ExclusiveLock | t       |
> |     NULL |     NULL |   116230297 | 24753 | ExclusiveLock | t       |
> |     NULL |     NULL |   116230295 | 24765 | ExclusiveLock | t       |
> |     NULL |     NULL |   116230152 | 24096 | ExclusiveLock | t       |
> |     NULL |     NULL |   116230311 | 24769 | ExclusiveLock | t       |
> |     NULL |     NULL |   116194826 | 23048 | ExclusiveLock | t       |
> |     NULL |     NULL |   116230307 | 24758 | ExclusiveLock | t       |
> +----------+----------+-------------+-------+---------------+---------+
> (17 rows)

May I know how you obtain this kind of output ( biq square around
results ) ?



Regards
Gaetano Mendola


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