Re: Processing Delay

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Michael Lawson (mshindo)
<michael(at)sphinix(dot)com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We have a problem with a relatively small database at the moment that is
> resulting in delays times between insertions and retrievals. An update is
> applied to a single entry in a table and almost straight after that the same
> record is read.
>
> The problem we are encountering is a delay before we can read the updated
> value. This delay can be up to 15 seconds in some cases.

What pg version, what's your access patterns look like, and what
maintenance like vacuuming / autovacuuming are you doing / not doing?

Is this within the same connection, and it's taking 15 seconds for an
insert to return?