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From Scott Marlowe
Subject Re: ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN Hangs
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In response to ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN Hangs  (Samuel Stearns <SStearns@internode.com.au>)
Responses Re: ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN Hangs  (Samuel Stearns <SStearns@internode.com.au>)
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On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Samuel Stearns
<SStearns@internode.com.au> wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> I’m running in an 8.3.3 environment.  What could cause, or how can I
> diagnose, why an ‘ALTER TABLE <name> ADD COLUMN’ statement runs for hours
> eventually locking users out and requiring to be killed in the end?

And not that it matters here, but is there a reason for running such
out of date pgsql code?

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