| From: | Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: issue with gininsert under very high load |
| Date: | 2014-02-13 23:06:34 |
| Message-ID: | 20140213230634.GE4910@awork2.anarazel.de |
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On 2014-02-13 16:15:42 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com> writes:
> > Perhaps we should use a lock to enforce that only one process tries to
> > clean up the pending list at a time.
>
> Something like the attached? Can somebody who's seen this problem confirm
> this improves matters?
>
> (ginInsertCleanup's header comment also needs to be rewritten, but for
> testing purposes, this is fine.)
Hm. Won't that possiby lead to the fast tuple list growing unboundedly?
I think we would need to at least need to stop using the fast tuple
mechanism during gininsert() if it's already too big and do plain
inserts.
Greetings,
Andres Freund
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