Tobias Brox <tobi...@gmail.com> writes:
> Recently we've frequently encountered issues where some simple selects
> (meaning, selects doing an index lookup and fetching one row) have
> become stuck for several minutes. Apparently all requests on one
> exact table gets stuck, all requests not related to said table are
> going through without any problems. According to the pg_stat_activity
> view, all queries getting stuck was read-queries (selects), no updates
> or anything like that (some of the transactions were doing updates
> and/or inserts though).
> The obvious thought seems to be that this is a locking issue ... but
> it doesn't seem so. For one thing, AFAIK locking shouldn't affect
> selects, only updates?
An exclusive lock will block selects too. Have you looked into pg_locks
for ungranted lock requests?
regards, tom lane
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