Re: Postgres locks table schema?

On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 12:51, Stas Oskin wrote:
> Hi.
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> When running SQL scripts, which change the tables' schema, we
> sometimes experience a lock of these tables' schema. The lock occurs
> on the first command of the script, on the first modified table. When
> this occurs, no further schema modification for this table is
> possible, until the server is restarted, which is very problematic for
> a production environment.
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> Perhaps someone is familiar with this behavior, and how it can be
> resolved, without the restart of the server?
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> The server used is PostgreSQL 8.0.3, and the OS is Fedora Core 3.


Have you got a test case that reproduces this in some way?  I'm guessing
Tom's got it right on committing the transaction, but without knowing
EXACTLY what you're doing, we're just guessing here.