Re: Commit takes a long time. - Mailing list pgsql-performance

Hello

On 03/01/2008, Peter Childs <peterachilds@gmail.com> wrote:
> Using Postgresql 8.1.10 every so often I get a transaction that takes a
> while to commit.
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> I log everything that takes over 500ms and quite reguallly it says things
> like
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> 707.036 ms statement: COMMIT
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> Is there anyway to speed this up?
>

there can be two issues:
a) some trigger activity for  DEFERRED constraints
b) slow write to WAL

http://www.westnet.com/~gsmith/content/postgresql/

in normal cases COMMIT is really fast operation.

Regards
Pavel Stehule

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