Alexander Stanier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The problem happened again this morning and I took the chance to check > out the locking situation. The number of locks increased dramatically up > to over 1000, but they were all "AccessShareLocks" and all were granted. > The odd "RowExclusiveLock" appeared but none persisted. On the basis > that nothing seems to be waiting for a lock, I don't think it is a > locking problem.
Hmm. How many active processes were there, and how many locks per process? (A quick "SELECT pid, count(*) GROUP BY pid" query should give you this info next time.) We just recently got rid of some O(N^2) behavior in the lock manager for cases where a single backend holds many different locks. So if there's a single query acquiring a whole lot of locks, that could possibly have something to do with this. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])