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From: Andrew Sullivan <ajs@crankycanuck.ca>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Postgres locking up?
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:30:06 -0400
Message-ID: <20060929193006.GF23697@phlogiston.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <451D72DE.4080205@janestcapital.com>
References: <451D72DE.4080205@janestcapital.com>

On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 03:24:14PM -0400, Brian Hurt wrote:
> I'm experiencing a problem with our postgres database.  Queries that 
> normally take seconds suddenly start taking hours, if they complete at 
> all. 

The first thing I'd do is EXPLAIN and EXPLAIN ANALYSE on the queries
in question.

The next thing I'd look for is OS-level performance problems.

A

-- 
Andrew Sullivan  | ajs@crankycanuck.ca
I remember when computers were frustrating because they *did* exactly what 
you told them to.  That actually seems sort of quaint now.
		--J.D. Baldwin



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