Jonathan Guthrie <jguthrie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > ... or, at least, it's supposed to. Those two operations are not supposed > to overlap at all even if they're on two different connections. I > thought I had verified this by looking at the log file. I mean, I can > look at the log file and see things like > 2008-11-03 16:29:22 CST DEBUG: 00000: StartTransactionCommand > and > 2008-11-03 16:29:22 CST DEBUG: 00000: CommitTransactionCommand > where I would expect them to if what I'm expecting is going on, but the > log file doesn't appear to have enough information to see a transaction > created, proceed, and then end. That is, how do I know which > transaction was started and which one was committed? You need to add more identification info to your log_line_prefix. The PID would be the most reliable way to tie those entries together, but I think there's also an option that writes the transaction ID. > I'm kind of confused by lines like this: > 2008-11-03 16:29:22 CST DEBUG: 00000: name: unnamed; blockState: INPROGRESS; state: INPROGR, xid/subid/cid: 678145/1/4, nestlvl: 1, children: 678146 678147 > Is there an easy explanation somewhere? You'd have to look at the source code to figure out most of the DEBUG-level messages. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general