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BufferPin

Short Description

Waiting to acquire a pin on a buffer

Detailed Description​

The server process is waiting for an exclusive lock on a shared memory buffer.

How to reduce this wait​

This wait can be seen when another process is using the buffer in an open cursor.

Look for:

  • Long running transactions
  • Orphaned sessions
  • Vacuum sessions

PostgreSQL documentation - The Statistics Collector

PostgreSQL documentation - Memory

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