Hi listers,

I have a table that is accessed by only one transaction. It has 1500 rows
each time that it processes

This transaction. As soon as this transaction ends, it waits 10 seconds and
starts again.

It has another maximum 1500 rows loaded. .



My question is this: I believe a RowExclusive level lock is acquired 1500
times during each transaction.

Is this true? Is there a way to disable RowExclusive locks and reduce
overhead since only this transaction

Accesses this table. I know there are ways to specify locking levels in
other DBMSs. To page or table levels.

We are currently at version 7.4.5.



Thank you for your time,





Mark Steben

Senior Database Administrator
@utoRevenueT
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On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 14:19 -0400, Mark Steben wrote:

> We are currently at version 7.4.5.

You should upgrade if you want better performance and scalability.

Or maybe you should just use COPY?

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