How to analyze of short but heavy intermittent slowdown on BIND on production database (or BIND vs log_lock_waits)

Hi,

When performing post-mortem analysis of some short latency spikes on a
heavily loaded database, I found that the reason for (less than 10 second
latency spike) wasn't on the EXECUTE stage but on the BIND stage.
At the same time graphical monitoring shows that during this few second
period there were some queries waiting in the BIND stage.

Logging setup:
log_min_duration_statement=200ms
log_lock_waits=on
deadlock_timeout=100ms
So I expected that every lock waiting over 100ms (>deadlock_timeout) should
be in the log.
But in the log I see only spikes on slow BIND but not lock waits logged.
(
grep BIND /var/log/postgresql/postgresql-2022-12-29.log | grep 'duration' |
perl -pe 's/^(2022-12-29 \d\d:\d\d:\d).*$/$1/' | sort | uniq -c | less
...
9 2022-12-29 00:12:5
2 2022-12-29 00:13:1
3 2022-12-29 00:13:5
!!! 68 2022-12-29 00:14:0
5 2022-12-29 00:14:1
3 2022-12-29 00:14:2
2 2022-12-29 00:14:3
).
But no lock waits on the BIND stage logged during the problem period (and
no lock waits in general).
Similar issues happen a few times per day without any visible pattern (but
on the same tables usually).
No CPU or IO load/latency spikes found during problem periods.
No EXECUTE slowdown found in the log during that time.

So currently I have two hypotheses in research:
1)during BIND stage not every lock waits logged
2)there are some not a lock related intermittent slowdown of BIND

I ask for any ideas how to debug this issue (duration of such spike usually
under 1s but given how many TPS database serving - 1s is too much and
affect end users).

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Maxim Boguk
Senior Postgresql DBA
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