Re: issue with gininsert under very high load

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
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 23:49:21
Message-ID: 30461.1392335361@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> On 2014-02-13 16:15:42 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Something like the attached? Can somebody who's seen this problem confirm
>> this improves matters?

> 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.

No, because we've already got a process working on cleaning it out.

In any case, this needs some testing to see if it's an improvement
or not.

regards, tom lane

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