Re: Planner performance extremely affected by an hanging transaction (20-30 times)?

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Planner performance extremely affected by an hanging transaction (20-30 times)?
Date: 2013-09-27 21:14:39
Message-ID: 20130927211439.GB7260@awork2.anarazel.de
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On 2013-09-27 13:57:02 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Andres, Jeff,
>
>
> >> As far as I can tell, the only downside of doing that is that, since hint
> >> bits might be set later, it is possible some dirty pages will get written
> >> unhinted and then re-dirtied by the hint bit setting, when more aggressive
> >> setting would have only one combined dirty write instead. But that seems
> >> rather hypothetical, and if it really is a problem we should probably
> >> tackle it directly rather than by barring other optimizations.
> >
> > I am - as evidenced - too tired to think about this properly, but I
> > think you might be right here.
>
> Any thoughts on a fix for this we could get into 9.2.5?

I don't see much chance to apply anything like this in a
backbranch. Changing IO patterns in a noticeable way in a minor release
is just asking for trouble.

Also, this really isn't going to fix the issue discussed here - this was
just about the additional ProcArrayLock contention. I don't think it
would change anything dramatical in your case.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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