Re: TRUNCATE locking problem

Thanks...I just wanted to verify that it was the intended behaviour
prior to going in and changing code :)

- Joe Maldonado

Tom Lane wrote:

>Joe Maldonado <jmaldonado@webehosting.biz> writes:
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>
>>It seems that TRUNCATE is first posting a lock on the table and then
>>waiting for other transactions to finish before truncating the table
>>thus blocking all other operations.
>>
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>That's what it's supposed to do.  If you have a problem with the length
>of the delay, find the (other) transaction that's accessing the table
>for too long and fix that.
>
>            regards, tom lane
>
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