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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Sören Meyer-Eppler <soerenme@google.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL 9.0.4 blocking in lseek?
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:28:01 -0400
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=?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F6ren_Meyer-Eppler?= <soerenme@google.com> writes:
>> embedded in often-executed plpgsql functions, for instance.  Can you
>> identify which table the lseeks are issued against?

> I wouldn't know how? I'm just using htop and "s" on the postgres process 
> to find these...

Note the file number appearing in the lseeks, run "lsof -p PID" against
the backend process to discover the actual filename of that file, then
look for a match to the filename in pg_class.relfilenode.

> I have attached two of the offending execution plans. Anything obviously 
> wrong with them?

What makes you say these are "offending execution plans"?  Both of them
seem to be completing just fine.

			regards, tom lane



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