On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Samuel Stearns <SStearns@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Howdy, > > I’m running in an 8.3.3 environment. What could cause, or how can I > diagnose, why an ‘ALTER TABLE <name> ADD COLUMN’ statement runs for hours > eventually locking users out and requiring to be killed in the end? And not that it matters here, but is there a reason for running such out of date pgsql code? -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin