Re: App very unresponsive while performing simple update

Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> writes:
> What queries are those two processes executing? And what foreign keys do you
> have on the product table or elsewhere referring to the product table? And
> what indexes do you have on those columns?

And what PG version is this?  Alvaro fixed the
foreign-keys-take-exclusive-locks problem in 8.1 ...

            regards, tom lane