From: Dennis Wang <dennis_02_2002@hotmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Postgresql Help <pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: URGENET: ALTER statement exectuation hangs when it is executed multiple time on a t
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:11:27 +1030
Message-ID: <BAY137-W28E6F535F92B4E0814CB37D6400@phx.gbl> (raw)
Hi Tom
Thank you very much for the help.
> To: dennis_02_2002@hotmail.com
> CC: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] URGENET: ALTER statement exectuation hangs when it is executed multiple time on a table
> Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:09:58 -0500
> From: tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
>
> Dennis Wang writes:
>> The actual PostgreSQL commands are:
>> ALTER TABLE warngrid ALTER COLUMN id SET DEFAULT (nextval('warngrid_seq')* 10)+1;
>> COPY warngrid FROM 'warngrid.csv' CSV HEADER;
>> ALTER TABLE warngrid ALTER COLUMN id DROP DEFAULT;
>
>> For the first time, these operation execute fine. Then I do these steps:
>> 4. delete all the records in the table
>> 5. rerun the shell script to copy records.
>
>> Then, the ALTER statement in step 1 hanging there.
> Did you do all this in one database session, or more than one? If the
> latter, maybe you haven't committed the transaction that did the DELETE?
I delete the records by login the database with 'psql' command, the ALTER statement is running by another process. So I guess the DELETE and ALTER are in two different session. However, the DELETE statement is a one shot command, it should commit immediately if I did not put it in a "BEGIN ... COMMIT" block.
I will try that again by issue COMMIT right after the DELETE to see any difference.
>> I did check the lock state of the warngrid table, it says the process created by the ALTER statement hold an 'AccessExclusiveLock' on the table.
>
> Did it actually *have* that lock, or was it waiting for it (granted = f
> in pg_locks)?
The process actually have the Lock.
> regards, tom lane
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Regard
Dennis
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