On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 3:14 PM, AI Rumman <rumman...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Could any one please tell me why my system is waiting to get lock for an
> INSERT statement?
>
> 2014-05-21 07:52:49.965 PDT [9-1]LOG:  process 31407 acquired
> ExclusiveLock on extension of relation 429298276 of database 21497 after
> 3219.963 ms
>

"on extension of relation" means that it needs to add 8KB to the end of the
table.  That it takes so long to obtain that locks suggests you have a some
serious IO congestion.

Cheers,

Jeff

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