Re: stupid Q regarding "UPDATE waiting"

From: Andrew Sullivan <andrew(at)libertyrms(dot)info>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: stupid Q regarding "UPDATE waiting"
Date: 2002-08-27 18:08:17
Message-ID: 20020827140817.O19440@mail.libertyrms.com
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On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 07:40:09PM +0200, Christian Mock wrote:
> hello,
>
> I'm doing long-running transactions which insert into tables A and B,
> and when I try to update table C from another session, the update
> hangs until the first transaction is done; the related postgres process
> shows as "UPDATE waiting" in ps.

Do you have referential integrity on any of these? That's the usual
suspect in these cases.

A

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