Re: Alter command getting stuck on a table

Tom Lane <[email protected]> writes:

> Laurenz Albe <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> On Tue, 2020-01-07 at 14:58 +0530, Shrikant Bhende wrote:
>>> I am trying to add a column to a table but it's not working, I have also tried
>>> reindex and drop on the same table but those commands are also getting stuck.
>
>> There is a concurrent session which has an open transaction which
>> holds some lock on the table in question.
>
> Yes, that looks like the cause.  The pg_locks view could help you
> find the culprit session.

Yeah, and IMO the pg_blocking_pids($blocked-guys-pid) function is pretty
snazzy too :-)


> 			regards, tom lane
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