Hello On 03/12/2007, Dragan Zubac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > What I have noticed is that when I don't use procedure > at all,there's only 2-5 locks in pg_locks,after I > start application which uses stored procedure the > number in pg_locks increase rapidly to steady 75 even > to 130 at certain moments. > > Any clue why procedure usage might increase locks so > heavily ? > > Sincerely >
upgrade to 8.2? There is shared lock and there are less problems with locks. But I am not sure if this solves your problem. General protection before locks is all things with maximal speed. Are your queris well optimazed? Regards Pavel Stehule > --- Dragan Zubac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello > > > > I have a stored procedure which does the billing > > stuff > > in our system,it works ok,but if I put in > > production,where there is some 5-10 billing events > > per > > second,the whole database slows down. It won't even > > drop some test table,reindex,vacuum,things which > > were > > done before in the blink of an eye. If I stop the > > application which calls the procedure,all is back to > > normal. > > > > We didn't implement any special locking mechanism in > > the procedure,all is default. The procedure is > > updating user's balance in table 'users'. On the > > other > > hand a couple of 'heavy load' table has foreign keys > > pointing to table 'users'. > > > > Is it the matter of concurency and some locking > > issue > > or maybe the existing of all those foreign keys > > pointing to table 'users',or maybe something else > > which we're not aware at the moment ? > > > > Sincerely > > > > Pera > > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > > Be a better sports nut! Let your teams follow you > > with Yahoo Mobile. Try it now. > > > http://mobile.yahoo.com/sports;_ylt=At9_qDKvtAbMuh1G1SQtBI7ntAcJ > > > > ---------------------------(end of > > broadcast)--------------------------- > > TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project > > by donating at > > > > > > http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Be a better friend, newshound, and > know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. > http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate > subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your > message can get through to the mailing list cleanly > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq
