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From: Evan Walter <ewalter@decisionanalyst.com>
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: dropping a large table is taking a very long time (about 2 hours so far)
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 16:10:17 -0500
Message-ID: <CAOHVLOFBYojG-6tSMB3PM2a2CSO3B434svFGDudLdg5rVCMVLg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

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?

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