RES: RES: 8.2.4 selects make applications wait indefinitely

> On 10/11/07, Carlos H. Reimer <carlos(dot)reimer(at)opendb(dot)com(dot)br> wrote:
> > > "Carlos H. Reimer" <carlos(dot)reimer(at)opendb(dot)com(dot)br> writes:
> > > > SELECT * or naming all the columns locks the client
> > > application. Yesterday
> > > > I´ve wrongly said that when naming all the columns instead of
> > > using the *
> > > > the applications did not lock.
> > >
> > > Hm, are you sure it's not one specific column that's causing the
> > > problem?
> > Yes, I´ve just doublechecked again. The table has 11 columns, I used 11
> > SELECTs, one for each column, and all run successfully. Started
> adding more
> > columns, no problem. When the full list of columns was specified in the
> > SELECT it locked.
>
> If you turn on stats_command_string do you see in
>
> select * from pg_stat_activity;
>
> for the current_query ???

It´s "<IDLE>" but the "query_start" column is refreshed.

Reimer