I added the excel file for locks data.
I was surprised to see that while I was updating a single column value for
all records in a tables, all indexes are locked by the server.

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 7:44 PM, hubert depesz lubaczewski <
dep...@depesz.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 07:20:28PM +0600, AI Rumman wrote:
> > I have a table as follows:
> > I execued the query:
> > ALTER TABLE entity ADD COLUMN owner_type char(1) NOT NULL default 'U';
> >
> > The db is stuck. The enity table has 2064740 records;
>
> such alter table has to rewrite whole table. So it will take a while
>
> > Watching locks:
>
> output of this was perfectly unreadable, because your email client
> wrapped lines at some random places.
>
> In future - please put such dumps on some paste site, or just attach it
> to mail, and not copy/paste them to body of message.
>
> Best regards,
>
> depesz
>
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Attachment: pglocks.xls
Description: MS-Excel spreadsheet

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