On 4/29/15 12:32 AM, Mitu Verma wrote:
> This script first does the indexing then it deletes the entries from the
> table. Now issue is that this script is taking lot of time and has
> acquired some locks also. Nor sure if it is happening due to indexing or
> what.
Mixing DDL with bulk DML operations is not a recipe for good
concurrency. For that matter, running DDL on a recurring basis isn't
good either.
BTW, you might want to look at using PgQ to do the queuing; it has
different methods of maintaining it's queues so you don't run into these
sort of problems.
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