Re: locking issue on simple selects?

Tobias Brox wrote:
> I thought so, we have a logging script that logs the content of
> the pg_locks table, it didn't log anything interesting but it may be a
> problem with the script itself. It does an inner join on
> pg_locks.relation = pg_class.oid but when I check now this join seems
> to remove most of the rows in the pg_locks table.

Some of the waits you might be running into will be things waiting on
another transaction holding a lock to finish, which are probably wiped
out by this approach. There are some useful examples of lock views on
the wiki:

http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Lock_Monitoring
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Lock_dependency_information
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Find_Locks

And the idea you have of coverting the pg_class one to an outer join
will help.

The other thing you should try is toggling on log_lock_waits and
possibly reducing deadlock_timeout. This will put a lot of the
information you're trying to collect right into the logs.

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