On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 3:28 PM, Alessandro Gagliardi
<alessan...@path.com> wrote:
> I'm unable to make sense of pg_locks. The vast majority are
> locktype='transactionid', mode='ExclusiveLock', granted=t. There are some
> 'relation' locks with mode='RowExclusiveLock' and fewer with
> 'AccessShareLock'. I have no idea what I should be looking for here.

If you have lock contention, you'll see locks with granted='f', at
least from time to time.  Those are the ones you want to worry about.

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Robert Haas
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