Re: Cancel problems of query to pg_stat_statements

> On 24 Apr 2025, at 22:49, Roman Khapov <rkhapov(at)yandex-team(dot)ru> wrote:
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> Hi!
> Recently we faced a problem in out production psql installation, which was that we had to cancel all requests to the db, including performance monitoring requests, that uses ps_stat_statements. But we could not cancel the request in usual way, and had to kill -9 the pg process of it.

Interesting problem, thanks for raising it!

> We've noticed that the the query execution stuck on PGSS_TEXT_FILE file reading in function qtext_load_file, which doesn't have CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS in the read cycle. In addition to our case with large PGSS_TEXT_FILE (and maybe the problems with virtual disk i/o) that can explain uncancellable pg_stat_statements queries.

I'm afraid it might be not so easy to add CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS there. Most probably you was holding a LWLockAcquire(pgss->lock, LW_SHARED) somewhere (do you have a backtrace?), which prevent interrupts anyway.

Thanks!

Best regards, Andrey Borodin.