Re: RES: Lock Problem

On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 16:12, André José Guergolet wrote:
> Sorry, I have a table with 360 rows, in this table I control the state of machines on network:
>
>
> Ip             State        StateDate
> 172.20.0.39        Running    2006-08-23 00:00:00
> 172.20.0.59        Running    2006-08-23 00:00:00
> 172.20.0.72        Running    2006-08-23 00:00:00
> 172.20.0.84        Running    2006-08-23 00:00:00
> 172.20.0.35        Running    2006-08-23 00:00:00
> 172.20.0.17        Running    2006-08-23 00:00:00
> 172.20.0.28        Running    2006-08-23 00:00:00
> 172.20.0.39        Running    2006-08-23 00:00:00
> 172.20.0.14        Running    2006-08-23 00:00:00
> 172.20.0.33        Running    2006-08-23 00:00:00
> 172.20.0.19        Running    2006-08-23 00:00:00
>
> My system, checks if my script is running in each machine at this table, this table has 360 rows and has 50-100
updatesper minute in columns STATE and STATEDATE. 
>
> I list this states with a webpage. This webpage updates the list every 10 seconds. My page executes only "select *
frommachinestates". 
>
> If I stop the updates, I never get my page stopped at the select command.
>
> I read about "DIRTY Transaction", is it the way?
> I have another solution?

I'm guessing you've got a different problem.  Generally speaking, in an
MVCC database like PostgreSQL, readers don't block writers, and writers
don't block readers.

We need more info on how you're doing this.  SQL queries for the updates
etc...

Are you vacuuming the database often enough?  Is this table suffering
from bloat?