Re: pg_connect takes 3.0 seconds

Dmitri Girski wrote:

I am running a PostgreSQL server 8.3.5 with a pretty much standard config.

The web application server which runs Apache 1.3/PHP2.9  has an intermittent problem:

pg_connect takes exactly 3.0 seconds. The usual connection time is 0.0045.

The long request happens at approximate rate 1:100.

First thing to check for intermittent multi-second delays is whether a checkpoint is happening at that time.  See http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Logging_Checkpoints for an intro, you'd want to see if the checkpoints are around the same time as the delays each time.  The default configuration makes checkpoints happen all the time if there's any significant write traffic on your database.

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