On Tue, 2020-01-07 at 14:58 +0530, Shrikant Bhende wrote: > I am trying to add a column to a table but it's not working, I have also tried > reindex and drop on the same table but those commands are also getting stuck. There is a concurrent session which has an open transaction which holds some lock on the table in question. Look for old "active" or "idle in transaction" sessions in "pg_stat_activity" and see that they get closed. Then the ALTER TABLE will work fine. Yours, Laurenz Albe -- Cybertec | https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com