why detach partition in postgres is not responding in postgres? - postgresql

when I am trying to execute below query through Perl script my code is getting unresponsive (not throwing any error only cursor is waiting to execute this query).
ALTER TABLE base_table
DETACH PARTITION part_table;
interestingly above query is working fine on the postgres terminal.
what are all the possible scenarios for which i am facing this issue and how it could be resolved?

There is a concurrent long running transaction holding a lock on the table. Terminate all such transactions, and it will work fine.

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How to terminate a long running postgres query (in plv8 extension)?

I have executed a plv8 function on pgadmin 4, that uses nested for loops and some array functions.
This query was stopped using pgadmin cancel query (stop) button in GUI.
24 hours later, This query still shows up as active and running.
I have Tried, pg_cancel_backend and pg_terminate_backend, but seems to have no impact.
Tried pg_ctl kill (TERM/ABRT/INT)command, but pid is not found.
However, AWS performance insights dashboard shows up, the query using 25-30% of CPU.
If you guys could suggest alternate ways, to terminate this query, That'd be really helpful.
Thanks.

DBLink query doesn't terminate even after it completes

I have a Dblink query Amazon RDS (Postgres) that execute an INSERT with rows from an Amazon Redshift cluster.
The query terminates after 15/20 minutes, if not more, but I can see that all rows are being inserted after only few minutes.
I'm running these queries via JetBrains' DataGrip.
Some other similar dblink on the same connection, terminate as expected.
The only difference I see being the size of the table, which is bigger in the first case.
All these queries are simply copying the whole table. Pretty much like this:
insert into rds_table(
select *
from db_link('foreign_server',
$REDSHIFT$
select *
from redshift_table
$REDSHIFT$) as table_n(...)
);
Where "foreign server" is my connection to Redshift.
I know that the query is completed because rds_table has the same number of rows as redshift_table.
DataGrip shows the query as still running:
and won't let me run other queries until I manually stop the query.
If I do so, the inserted rows remain in the database, meaning that the transaction has already committed.
Why is this happening? Is it a problem with DataGrip or with Postgres?
How can I fix it?
Is there any other better alternative to migrate data from Redshift to RDS?
If a concurrent transaction can already see the inserted data, that means that the inserting transaction and consequently the INSERT statement must already be finished.
If DataGrip shows the statement as still running, it is lying to you.
So this must be a DataGrip bug.

Small UPDATE makes hang issue

PostgreSQL 9.5.
A very small update SQL uses very high CPU for a long time like a hang.
My Windows console application uses a simple UPDATE statement to update the latest time as follows.
UPDATE META_TABLE SET latest_time = current_timestamp WHERE host = 'MY_HOST'
There are just 2 console applications which issue above SQL.
No index on META_TABLE.
Only 1 row.
When it is hanging, no lock information.
UNLOGGED Table.
IDLE status in pg_stat_activity
Commit after UPDATE.
During that the hang time, I can INSERT or DELETE data with the table above.
After starting the application, about in 20 minutes, this issue happens.
I think it is not a SQL statement or table structure issue, probably something wrong in a database side.
Can you guess anything to resolve this issue?
Update
There are 2 db connections in the console application. 1 for Select & 1 for DML.
I tried to close DML DB connection every 2 minutes. Then, I haven't seen the issue!! However, the hang issue happened on SELECT statement (also very simple SELECT).
It seems that there is a some limit per the session.
Now, I am also closing the Select db connection as well per 3 minutes and monitoring.

Postgres table queries not responding

I have been trying to truncate a table using SQlWorkbench. Suddenly, SqlWorkbench got freezed, while the truncate was in progress. I had to kill workbench from taskmanager. But now none of the queries are working on the table on which the truncate was aborted abruptly. For other tables queries are working fine. Need help, as I have to upload fresh data on the same table. Currently I am not even able to drop the table. What can be done to resolve this issue?
This looks like the TRUNCATE got stuck behind a lock, and then you killed the front end, while TRUNCATE kept running.
Connect to the database as superuser and examine the pg_stat_activity view; you should see some long running transactions.
Use the function pg_terminate_backend to kill these sessions by their pid.

How to drop a Redshfit database with connected users

Is it possible to drop active connections to Redshift in order to drop a database?
In my development environment I find myself recreating the schema very frequently and if there happens to be some stray process connected to the database this fails. I know it's possible to do this with Postgresql using pg_terminate_backend, but this doesn't seem to work on Redshift.
Deleting rows from the STV_SESSIONS table isn't an option, either.
Any ideas?
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/dg/PG_TERMINATE_BACKEND.html
Find the PIDs of current running queries
select pid from stv_recents where status = 'Running';
and terminate all the queries with
select pg_terminate_backend(pid);