Re: Finding out on exactly what I am stuck

Overlooked your mentioning to timestamps in pg_stat_activity. What
patterns do I need to look for there.

Thanks
Peter

2009/4/9 Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>:
> Péter Kovács <maxottovonstirlitz(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> postgres 14727  9868  0 22:34 ?        00:00:00 postgres: pkovacs
>> chemaxon 127.0.0.1(12496) idle in transaction
>> postgres 14735  9868  0 22:34 ?        00:00:00 postgres: pkovacs
>> chemaxon 127.0.0.1(12497) idle in transaction
>> postgres 14737  9868  0 22:34 ?        00:00:00 postgres: pkovacs
>> chemaxon 127.0.0.1(12498) UPDATE waiting
>
> I would start by looking at pg_locks to see if your update is blocked
> by one of the connections which is idle in a transaction.  Any locks
> won't be released until the idle transaction commits or rolls back.
> Then look at pg_stat_activity to check timestamps.  Be sure your
> software doesn't have any code path which leaves things dangling.
> (Since you seem to be using Java, I recommend proper use of
> try/finally blocks to ensure resources are released.)
>
> -Kevi
>