Re: adding foreign key constraint locks up table

> Whenever I try to create a new table "bbb" with foreign key pointing
> to "aaa". The operation locks, and reading "aaa" is not possible. The
> query also never seems to finish.

Do you mean that the ALTER query and subsequent queries are shown as
"waiting" in pg_stat_activity?  In this case, I'm also wondering why
this is inecessary.

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