On Wed, 2024-06-05 at 21:23 +0000, M Sarwar wrote: > Today I have an interesting observation. > I am truncating the table DUMMY_mid . > Truncate is getting struck due to DELETE operation on the table DUMMY_init. > > > When I take a look at the PG_STAT_ACTIVITY table, it is confirmed that > the TRUNCATE is blocked by DELETE on DUMMY_INIT table. > This seems to be strange to me. In "pg_stat_activity", you only see the last SQL statement that was executed on that connection. There might have been other SQL statements earlier in the same transaction that read or in some other way used "DUMMY_mid". Yours, Laurenz Albe