Rod Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The real question is why does DROP INDEX take more than a couple of > seconds to complete? It is not held up by locked.
AFAICS it shouldn't take any time to complete. I think you're mistaken and it is blocking on a lock (it will want exclusive lock on the table). Everyone else will then queue up behind it. IIRC there is not any easy way to check this in 7.2 unfortunately :-( but you could try looking for idle-in-transaction backends. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend