In the last episode (Jan 17), John Stumbles said:
> SELECT * from MAC_connections
>       or even
> SELECT count(*) from MAC_connections
> 
> hangs! (it's been sitting there for the last 10 minutes and hasn't
> produced anything!)

The server always caches the value of count(*), so the only reason it
couldn't return the result to you would be if the table was locked by
another process doing a long UPDATE or DELETE query; are there any
other queries being run at the same time?

-- 
        Dan Nelson
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