Re: add column with default value is very slow

On 09/11/2012 09:55 AM, AI Rumman wrote:
> I added the excel file for locks data.
> I was surprised to see that while I was updating a single column value
> for all records in a tables, all indexes are locked by the server.


Any ALTER TABLE command locks the whole table in ACCESS EXCLUSIVE mode,
indexes included. See the description of ACCESS EXCLUSIVE lock at
<http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/explicit-locking.html>

cheers

andrew