Re: PostgreSQL 7.4.10 hanging on delete

There are no conflicting locks; this occurs both concurrently with other
processes (dealing with other rows) and when the only two processes with
locks on the database are the one that hangs and the one I'm using to
examine pg_locks.

On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 08:02, Pandurangan R S wrote:
> When the delete statements hangs, look into the pg_locks table, to
> check if the delete statement is waiting because it has conflict with
> rows locked by other transactions.
>
> On 20 Dec 2005 16:21:53 +0000, Jonathan Parkin
> <jonathan(dot)parkin(at)legendplc(dot)com> wrote:
> > I have a reasonably large, live, system-critical database. A perl
> > script on another machine connects and issues a sequence of commands in
> > a transaction, the last of which is a delete. The delete never returns
> > a response, and the connection never times out. The postgres process
> > handling the delete is in a scheduled state, but stracing it produces no
> > output at all.

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