On Mon, 2021-03-29 at 22:38 +0530, Devendra Yadav wrote:
> I am running a query on a table - ALTER TABLE mytable ADD COLUMN deposited DOUBLE PRECISION DEFAULT 0.0;
>
> this query just runs forever.
Then either you are using a PostgreSQL version older than v11, or there
is an open transaction that used the table and blocks you.
Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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