X-Original-To: pgsql-performance-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60E8F9DC850 for ; Wed, 8 Feb 2006 04:30:43 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 80977-02 for ; Wed, 8 Feb 2006 04:30:41 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from smtp.nildram.co.uk (smtp.nildram.co.uk [195.112.4.54]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D4B49DC833 for ; Wed, 8 Feb 2006 04:30:38 -0400 (AST) Received: from [192.168.0.5] (unknown [84.12.26.47]) by smtp.nildram.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C774252BA9; Wed, 8 Feb 2006 08:30:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Re: partitioning and locking problems From: Simon Riggs To: "Jim C. Nasby" Cc: Marc Morin , Markus Schaber , pgsql-performance@postgresql.org In-Reply-To: <20060208005912.GS38134@pervasive.com> References: <2BCEB9A37A4D354AA276774EE13FB8C2BCC2A6@mailserver.sandvine.com> <1139350142.1258.174.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060208005912.GS38134@pervasive.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 08:30:29 +0000 Message-Id: <1139387429.1258.248.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.077 required=5 tests=[AWL=0.077] X-Spam-Score: 0.077 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200602/64 X-Sequence-Number: 17050 On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 18:59 -0600, Jim C. Nasby wrote: > I'm honestly somewhat surprised someone hasn't run into this problem > with partitioning yet; or maybe everyone who needs to do long > transactions just shoves those off to slony slaves... All DDL takes locks, on all DBMS. Best Regards, Simon Riggs