Re: Lots of stuck queries after upgrade to 9.4

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Spiros Ioannou <sivann(at)inaccess(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Lots of stuck queries after upgrade to 9.4
Date: 2015-07-19 22:01:49
Message-ID: 533.1437343309@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Spiros Ioannou <sivann(at)inaccess(dot)com> writes:
> We upgraded to 9.4.4 from 8.4 We have tried 9.3.x in the past with success.
> Unfortunately in 9.4 gets stuck 2-3 times a week.

> Lots of queries seem stuck, that is they have waiting:false. Queries can be
> COMMIT or INSERT.
> No blocking locks seem to exist.
> strace reveals that all stuck processes they are in semop
> semop(2064417, {{0, -1, 0}}, 1^C <unfinished ...>

Stack traces of the stuck processes might help determine what's going on.

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Generating_a_stack_trace_of_a_PostgreSQL_backend

Please try to capture traces for both the COMMIT and INSERT cases,
as they're almost certainly different.

regards, tom lane

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