I think we have a winner.  I looked in and found a process that was 'idle in 
transaction' for a couple days - and once I killed it, query performance went 
back to normal.

Thank you all for the very quick responses on this.

On 11/4/19, 3:41 PM, "Peter Geoghegan" <p...@bowt.ie> wrote:

    On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 12:38 PM Scott Rankin <sran...@motus.com> wrote:
    > Definitely no long-running transactions on this table; in fact, this 
table is pretty infrequently updated – on the order of a few tens of rows 
updated per day.

    But a long running transaction will have an impact on all tables --
    not just the tables that happen to have been accessed so far in the
    long running transaction. This is necessary because nothing stops the
    long running transaction from SELECTing data from any table at any
    time -- we need to pessimistically keep around the data required to
    make that work.

    --
    Peter Geoghegan



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