On 2/27/15 9:07 AM, gmb wrote: > Hi all > > I'm doing some maintenance - which is done quite often, never had this > problem before - which requires me to disable triggers, run some updates and > then re-enable the triggers. > Where the whole process normally take 30 sec , it took much longer today and > I cancelled after 5 minutes. > > After running the statements individually to pinpoint the issue , I > identified that the problem is on the first line. > >> ALTER TABLE tab DISABLE TRIGGER trig; > I have not been able to run this successfully -- after 10 minutes the > connection ( to remote DB ) got severed . > Any ideas on where I can start to look for the cause of the problem ?
ALTER TABLE requires an exclusive lock - my guess is that another process has a lock on the table. It could even be a select. pg_locks is your friend in this case: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/view-pg-locks.html -- - David Steele da...@pgmasters.net
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