"Kenneth Hutchinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > UPDATE t_summary > SET availability = 7 > WHERE oid = 28245084
> When this query is executed (within a function or without) the database > will simply hang. Is it really hung, or just taking an awfully long time? If the backend is consuming no CPU or I/O then I'd agree it's the former; please look into the pg_locks view to see if you can find out what it's waiting for. If it's the latter, maybe you neglected to create an index on OID? > Has anyone else experienced a similar issue? We'd certainly have heard about it if so. But you haven't provided enough info to let anyone reproduce the problem for investigation. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org