redshift drop or truncate table very very slow

Question

When drop or truncate a not too big table(4M rows) in my redshift database, it take very very long(hours) to complete. Does anybody experience the same issue?

Thanks

Answer 1

I've experienced the same problem. It turned out to be opened transaction ran from somewhere else.

For example, if you have 2 shells open with redshift shell, you will not be able to drop a table from the first shell, that participate in an open transaction in the second shell.

After I committed / rolled back in the second window, truncate worked perfectly.

Hope it helped.