I’m trying to alter a table column in Postgres, but the table has several AccessShare and AccessExclusive locks. How do I over come the locks?
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I’m trying to alter a table column in Postgres, but the table has several AccessShare and AccessExclusive locks. How do I over come the locks?
Kick out the connections that cause the locks. Use pg_cancel_backend() or even pg_terminate_backend().
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/functions-admin.html