Re: Commit takes a long time.

From: "Pavel Stehule" <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Peter Childs" <peterachilds(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "Postgresql Performance" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Commit takes a long time.
Date: 2008-01-03 16:20:01
Message-ID: 162867790801030820w6a150ab8jf63d03e92de449ed@mail.gmail.com
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Hello

On 03/01/2008, Peter Childs <peterachilds(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Using Postgresql 8.1.10 every so often I get a transaction that takes a
> while to commit.
>
> I log everything that takes over 500ms and quite reguallly it says things
> like
>
> 707.036 ms statement: COMMIT
>
> Is there anyway to speed this up?
>

there can be two issues:
a) some trigger activity for DEFERRED constraints
b) slow write to WAL

http://www.westnet.com/~gsmith/content/postgresql/

in normal cases COMMIT is really fast operation.

Regards
Pavel Stehule

> Peter Childs
>
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