On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 2:54 AM, roopasatish <roopabenzer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I have an issue with the add foreign key constraint which goes for waiting > and locks other queries as well. > > ALTER TABLE ONLY holding_positions ADD CONSTRAINT > holding_positions_stock_id_fkey FOREIGN KEY (stock_id) > REFERENCES stocks (stock_id) MATCH SIMPLE > ON UPDATE NO ACTION ON DELETE NO ACTION; > > The holding_positions table has no data in it as yet. > > > ps aux | grep postgres > postgres 5855 0.8 1.6 346436 271452 ? Ss 16:34 0:07 > postgres: abc stocks 192.100.100.111(60308) SELECT waiting > postgres 6134 0.0 0.0 346008 4184 ? Ss 16:44 0:00 > postgres: xyz stocks 192.100.100.222(34604) ALTER TABLE waiting > > > > Any suggestions would be appreciated. You need to look at what locks they're waiting for. select locktype, database, relation::regclass, page, tuple, virtualxid, transactionid, classid, objid, objsubid, virtualtransaction, pid, mode, granted from pg_locks; ...Robert -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance