Re: App very unresponsive while performing simple update

Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:

> Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> writes:
>
> > Except I don't think this is taking an exclusive lock at all. The original
> > post had the deadlock detection fire on a SharedLock.
>
> Yeah, but it was a ShareLock on a transaction ID, which is the trace
> of something doing XactLockTableWait, which is only done if we're
> blocking on a locked or updated-but-uncommitted row.

Oops, didn't see this before I sent my last message. Brendan, in case it's not
clear, in case of a conflict between my explanation and Tom's listen to Tom.

:)

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greg