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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de>
To: kakarukeys <kakarukeys@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: adding foreign key constraint locks up table
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 14:57:14 +0000
Message-ID: <82ei926j3p.fsf@mid.bfk.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <75218696-61be-4730-89f6-dd6058fa9eda@a28g2000prb.googlegroups.com>
References: <75218696-61be-4730-89f6-dd6058fa9eda@a28g2000prb.googlegroups.com>

> Whenever I try to create a new table "bbb" with foreign key pointing
> to "aaa". The operation locks, and reading "aaa" is not possible. The
> query also never seems to finish.

Do you mean that the ALTER query and subsequent queries are shown as
"waiting" in pg_stat_activity?  In this case, I'm also wondering why
this is inecessary.

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