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To: Brian Cox <brian.cox@ca.com>
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Subject: Re: multiple threads inserting into the same table 
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Comments: In-reply-to Brian Cox <brian.cox@ca.com>
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Brian Cox <brian.cox@ca.com> writes:
> The application log shows that 99652 rows are being inserted into 
> relation ts_stats_transet_user_daily. 5 threads are doing the inserts. 

pg_stat_activity says those five threads are doing nothing except
sitting around with open transactions.  You sure you don't have a bug on
the application side?

			regards, tom lane