Ed L. wrote:
>
> We are having locking issues in 8.1.2 on HP 11.23 ia64. I'm
> trying to better understand how to conclusively identify who is
> waiting on who and why.
>
> We have a series of "select for updates" on our 'sessions' table.
> One of those queries is stuck waiting for a "transactionid"
> locktype ShareLock. How can I tell what it's actually waiting
> for?
There should be tuple locks on pg_locks for the transaction that holds
the transactionid that your transaction is waiting on.
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