Re: BUG #5321: Parallel restore temporarily deadlocked by autovacuum analyze

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Jerry Gamache <jerry(dot)gamache(at)idilia(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BUG #5321: Parallel restore temporarily deadlocked by autovacuum analyze
Date: 2010-02-10 16:15:50
Message-ID: 20100210161549.GD4922@alvh.no-ip.org
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Jerry Gamache wrote:
> I was also surprised that table_y seemed to be involved. This is not
> a typo. Might be caused by a FK constraint between table_y and
> table_x. From the logs, the autovacuum on table_x was canceled
> before the one on table_y, but the restore only resumed after the
> autovacuum on table_y was canceled. It is possible (but I cannot
> confirm) that the autovacuum thread on table_x was blocked for a
> while after the cancellation message was written to the log. I added
> timestamps to log_line_prefix to be able to give more details if
> this happens again.

Could you try to restore the whole dump again and see if it you can
reproduce it? Maybe decreasing autovacuum_naptime makes it more
probable.

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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