Re: database-level lockdown

From: Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>
To: Filipe Pina <filipe(dot)pina(at)impactzero(dot)pt>, Melvin Davidson <melvin6925(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Postgresql General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: database-level lockdown
Date: 2015-07-04 18:23:01
Message-ID: 55982485.90101@aklaver.com
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On 07/04/2015 10:49 AM, Filipe Pina wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestion. I read that some people do use that strategy
> for maintenance sometimes but it's no feasible in this scenario.
>
> I would have to disallow new connections AND kill all existing
> connections (as there would be an existing connection pool), but this
> won't have the same impact as using LOCKs..
>
> Terminating all sessions will break every other transaction (except for
> the one doing it). Locking database will put all the other on hold.
> As we're talking about quick/instant operations on hold will have impact
> on performance but won't cause anything to abort..
>
> I really can't find any other solution for what I need (in short: make
> sure no transactions are left out due to serialization failures)

Which would seem to indicate you have painted yourself into a corner.
The idea of locking an entire database to get one transaction to commit
seems a little extreme to me.

What is this transaction trying to do and why is it necessary that it
commit at all costs?

>
>
> On 03/07/2015, at 19:00, Melvin Davidson <melvin6925(at)gmail(dot)com
> <mailto:melvin6925(at)gmail(dot)com>> wrote:
>

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Adrian Klaver
adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com

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