Re: Lost Access To Table

The client that is running the query hangs up, no response.  If I'm doing
this is psql then Ctrl-C will break out of it.  I have regained
functionality by shutting down and restarting the postmaster, but I was only
able to do this because this is my development machine.

If there was an open transaction how can I detect it and see if it's valid?

Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 4:28 PM
> To: Booth, Robert
> Cc: Pgsql-General
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Lost Access To Table
>
>
> "Booth, Robert" <Robert_Booth@intuit.com> writes:
> > I have a strange problem.  I have lost the ability to query
> a table.  Every
> > time I try to query it the system just hangs.
>
> Please define "hang" --- is the whole system locked up, or do you just
> not get a response to that query?  What do you do to recover?
>
> My bet is that there's an open transaction somewhere holding an
> exclusive lock on the table ...
>
>             regards, tom lane
>