On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 07:55:24PM +0600, AI Rumman wrote: > I added the excel file for locks data. well, it worked, but why didn't you just make it text file, in notepad or something like this? > I was surprised to see that while I was updating a single column value for > all records in a tables, all indexes are locked by the server. alter table is not locked (At least looking at the pg_locks data you showed). this means - it just takes long time. Please do: select pg_total_relation_size('entity'); to see how much data it has to rewrite. for future - just don't do alter table, with default, and not null. doing it via add column; set default; batch-backfill data, set not null will take longer but will be done with much shorter locks. Best regards, depesz -- The best thing about modern society is how easy it is to avoid contact with it. http://depesz.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance