On Dec 5, 2006, at 11:04 PM, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote:
Does PostgreSQL lock the entire row in a table if I update only 1
column?
Know that updating 1 column is actually updating the whole row. So if
one transaction updates column A of a row, it will block another
concurrent transaction that
It will be very important to determine if as performance degrades you
are either i/o bound, cpu bound or hindered by some other contention
(db locks, context switching, etc).
Try turning on statement duration logging for all statments or "slow"
statments (like those over 100ms or some arbit