Re: 'Waiting on lock'

Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Tom Lane (tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us) wrote:
> > Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> writes:
> > > It'd be nice to have a NOTICE printed when a wait-on-lock takes longer
> > > than a few seconds.
> >
> > It'd be relatively painless to make that happen as part of the
> > deadlock-check timeout function, but that's typically only a one-second
> > delay not a "few seconds". I think it'd likely be overly chatty.
>
> Yeah, I wouldn't want one per second.

It's not one per second, it's after one second (actually
deadlock_timeout) has elapsed since you started to sleep waiting for a
lock. If a deadlock is not detected the process won't be awakened
again.

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