Re: Performance issues with postgresql-8.4.0: Query gets stuck sometimes

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Sachin Kumar <Sachin(dot)Ku(at)globallogic(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org, Vivek Gupta <vivek(dot)gupta(at)globallogic(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Performance issues with postgresql-8.4.0: Query gets stuck sometimes
Date: 2010-07-06 00:34:51
Message-ID: AANLkTikuUizFtYmcT8oZE5y1JmmWXMrv6J-LrRd8NJ3o@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 1:40 AM, Sachin Kumar <Sachin(dot)Ku(at)globallogic(dot)com> wrote:
> At times we have observed that postgres stops responding for several
> minutes, even couldn’t fetch the number of entries in a particular table.
> One such instance happens when we execute the following steps:

Sounds sort of like a checkpoint spike.

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Robert Haas
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