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