Re: slow DDL creation

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 04:28:25PM -0600, Kevin Kempter wrote:
> Hi all ;
>
> we have an automated partition creation process that includes the creation of
> an FK constraint. we have a few other servers with similar scenarios and this
> is the only server that stinks per when we create the new partitions.
>
> Anyone have any thoughts on how to debug this?  were running postgres 8.4.4 on
> CentOS 5.5

If you're doing the partitions on demand, you could be getting
deadlocks.  Any reason not to pre-create a big bunch of them in
advance?

Cheers,
David.
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