Re: [PERFORM] Exclusive lock question

2005-06-29 Thread Tom Lane
Emil Briggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I see the slowdowns there are hundreds of these with no entry for > relation or database. Any ideas what is being locked in this case? Per the pg_locks documentation: Every transaction holds an exclusive lock on its transaction ID for its entire dur

[PERFORM] Exclusive lock question

2005-06-29 Thread Emil Briggs
I have been trying to diagnose a performance problem we have been seeing with a postgres application. The performance of the database server is usually quite good but every now and then it slows to a crawl. The output of vmstat does not show excessive CPU usage or disk IO. The output of ps does