I now have 8 hours worth of snapshots from pg_stat_activity and pg_locks (16 snapshots from each table/view). I have turned off collection at this point, but I am still able to query pg_locks: # SELECT mode, count(mode) AS count FROM pg_locks GROUP BY mode ORDER BY mode; mode | count ------------------+--------- AccessShareLock | 291 ExclusiveLock | 19 RowExclusiveLock | 4 RowShareLock | 1 SIReadLock | 7287531 (5 rows) SIReadLocks continue to grow. It seems, in general, that our application code over uses Serializable... we have produced a patch that demotes some heavy-hitting queries down to Read Committed, and we will see if this makes an impact on the number of SIReadLocks. Is it interesting that only 101557 out of 7 million SIReadLocks have a pid associated with them? -Dave Owens -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance