From: Steve Crawford <scrawford@pinpointresearch.com>
To: Evan Walter <ewalter@decisionanalyst.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: dropping a large table is taking a very long time (about 2 hours so far)
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 14:15:23 -0700
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On 09/24/2012 02:10 PM, Evan Walter wrote:
> There were probaby about 5 million records in the table. I do not
> believe there were any foreign keys to the table The drop table has
> been going for over 2 hours. Is that normal?
I'd check for locks from other transactions preventing the drop. One
possibility is a running backup.
Cheers,
Steve
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