Scott Rankin <[email protected]> writes:
> Thanks for the update. The query in question is a pretty simple one - it
> joins 3 tables, all of which are static - they donât have any writes being
> done against them. They have very few rows, and the query plan for them
> indicates that they are all sequential scans. When doing an EXPLAIN ANALYZE,
> the delay is not consistently on one table, it can vary between the three
> tables involved in the query.
No writes at all? That's pretty odd then. All the likely explanations
involve autovacuum or other forms of deferred maintenance.
A possible theory is that the slow cases represent times when the desired
page is not in cache, but you'd have to have a seriously overloaded disk
subsystem for a disk fetch to take hundreds of ms. Unless maybe this is
running on some cloud service with totally unspecified I/O bandwidth?
> I will look at changing the deadlock_timeout, but that might have to wait for
> the weekend since this is a production system.
You needn't restart the server for that, just edit postgresql.conf and
SIGHUP the postmaster.
regards, tom lane
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