Re: RES: Lock Problem

On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 06:12:32PM -0300, André José Guergolet wrote:
>
> My system, checks if my script is running in each machine at this
> table, this table has 360 rows and has 50-100 updates per minute in
> columns STATE and STATEDATE.

How often are you vacuuming it?  Long-running UPDATEs with that many
updates per minure makes me think that maybe you have a lot of dead
rows.

Anyway, none of this supports your claim that you're getting table
locks.  The place to see what locks you are getting is pg_locks.

A

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