Re: performance config help

> > How do I learn more about the actual lock contention in my db?
> > Lock contention makes some sense.  Each of the 256 requests are
> > relatively similar.  So, I don't doubt that lock contention could
> > be an issue.  I just don't know how to observe it or correct it.
> > It seems like if we have processes that are contending for locks,
> > there's not much we can do about it.
>
> I'm not sure what the best way would be to measure it, but in prior
> discussions the general mood seemed to be that if you had so many
> active sessions that you were running into the issue, the best
> solution was to use a connection pool to avoid it.

Sorry.. by "not much we can do about it", I meant, from a query perspective.  I mean, we can't use locking hints or
anythinglike that in Postgres that I know of.    

I do understand that the connection pool will help this.


>
> -Kevin
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