Re: RES: Lock Problem

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Scott Marlowe <smarlowe(at)g2switchworks(dot)com>
Cc: André José Guergolet <AGuergolet(at)compugraf(dot)com(dot)br>, Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca>, pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: RES: Lock Problem
Date: 2006-08-25 04:29:54
Message-ID: 18308.1156480194@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Scott Marlowe <smarlowe(at)g2switchworks(dot)com> writes:
> On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 16:12, Andr Jos Guergolet wrote:
>> My system, checks if my script is running in each machine at this table, this table has 360 rows and has 50-100 updates per minute in columns STATE and STATEDATE.

> Are you vacuuming the database often enough? Is this table suffering
> from bloat?

That's my bet. With numbers like those, that table has to get vacuumed
every few minutes to keep performance from going into the tank.

regards, tom lane

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