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Re: Postgres locking up?


  • From: Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca>
  • To: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
  • Subject: Re: Postgres locking up?
  • Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:30:06 -0400
  • Message-id: <20060929193006(dot)GF23697(at)phlogiston(dot)dyndns(dot)org>

On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 03:24:14PM -0400, Brian Hurt wrote:
> I'm experiencing a problem with our postgres database.  Queries that 
> normally take seconds suddenly start taking hours, if they complete at 
> all. 

The first thing I'd do is EXPLAIN and EXPLAIN ANALYSE on the queries
in question.

The next thing I'd look for is OS-level performance problems.

A

-- 
Andrew Sullivan  | ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca
I remember when computers were frustrating because they *did* exactly what 
you told them to.  That actually seems sort of quaint now.
		--J.D. Baldwin



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