On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 04:28:25PM -0600, Kevin Kempter wrote: > Hi all ; > > we have an automated partition creation process that includes the creation of > an FK constraint. we have a few other servers with similar scenarios and this > is the only server that stinks per when we create the new partitions. > > Anyone have any thoughts on how to debug this? were running postgres 8.4.4 on > CentOS 5.5 If you're doing the partitions on demand, you could be getting deadlocks. Any reason not to pre-create a big bunch of them in advance? Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <david@xxxxxxxxxx> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fetter@xxxxxxxxx iCal: webcal://www.tripit.com/feed/ical/people/david74/tripit.ics Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance