Re: Clearing locks

Excerpts from Matthew Excell's message of lun jun 07 15:33:27 -0400 2010:
> I'm on PostgreSQL 8.3.11 on Debian.
>
> I have a small piece of DDL (alter table title drop column is_target) that
> hangs "waiting" forever. (I've waited hours - it still shows as waiting in
> pg_top.) I have restarted the database - even tried it in single-user mode
> - but it still waits.
>
> When I execute a query to get lock info:
>
> select
> pg_class.relname,pg_locks.locktype,mode,virtualtransaction,database,relation,granted
> from pg_class,pg_locks where pg_class.relfilenode=pg_locks.relation;
>
> (These are all the columns in pg_locks with anything but null in them.)
>
> relname | locktype | mode |
> virtualtransaction | database | relation | granted
> --------------------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------------+----------+----------+---------
> property_key_name_index | relation | AccessShareLock |
> -1/22805859 | 64197 | 361377 | t

uh. Check pg_prepared_transactions (or was it pg_prepared_xacts?) and
do a ROLLBACK PREPARED (or COMMIT PREPARED) if there's anything that
shouldn't be there.

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