Excerpts from David Kerr's message of lun ago 23 18:15:56 -0400 2010:
> Howdy all,
>
> We're doing some performance testing, and when we scaled it our app up to about 250 concurrent users
> we started seeing a bunch of processes sititng in "PARSE WAITING" state.
>
> Can anyone give me insite on what this means? what's the parse waiting for?
It means the parse phase is waiting for a lock. You can see exactly
what it's waiting for by looking at pg_locks "WHERE NOT GRANTED".
Have you got lots of partitions, or something?
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