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From: Eric Comeau <ecomeau@signiant.com>
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Subject: Help with duration of statement: EXECUTE <unnamed> [PREPARE: COMMIT]
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2010 08:32:11 -0400
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We currently have

   log_min_duration_statement = 5000

and are seeing statements like the following logged

2010-10-16 05:55:52 EDT [6334]: [1-1] LOG:  duration: 5572.517 ms 
statement: EXECUTE <unnamed>  [PREPARE:  COMMIT]
2010-10-16 06:06:24 EDT [26856]: [1-1] LOG:  duration: 5617.866 ms 
statement: EXECUTE <unnamed>  [PREPARE:  COMMIT]
2010-10-16 06:06:24 EDT [20740]: [13-1] LOG:  duration: 5210.190 ms 
statement: EXECUTE <unnamed>  [PREPARE:  COMMIT]
2010-10-16 08:24:06 EDT [8743]: [1-1] LOG:  duration: 6487.346 ms 
statement: EXECUTE <unnamed>  [PREPARE:  COMMIT]

Questions;

1) What do these statements mean?
2) How do I dig deeper to determine why they are taking longer than 5 secs.

Version Info -->

select version();
                                                   version 

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  PostgreSQL 8.1.17 on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc 
(GCC) 4.1.1 20070105 (Red Hat 4.1.1-52)