Re: Gigantic load average spikes

From: Michel Pelletier <pelletier(dot)michel(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: David Rowley <david(dot)rowley(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: rihad <rihad(at)mail(dot)ru>, hjp-pgsql(at)hjp(dot)at, pgsql-general General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Gigantic load average spikes
Date: 2019-04-01 16:30:18
Message-ID: CACxu=vKyhWUDsh-xdtaJTr66SaQ7chfyuDFW0RDxyZMEPuMDUg@mail.gmail.com
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On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 10:49 PM David Rowley <david(dot)rowley(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
wrote:

>
> Perhaps a bunch of processes waiting on the access exclusive lock on
> the materialized view being released?
>
> log_lock_waits might help you if the MV takes more than a second to
> refresh, otherwise, you might need to have a look at ungranted locks
> in pg_locks and see if the number of locks spikes during the refresh.
>

I think David's got the right idea here. Like he said, investigate
pg_locks, if it is the refresh materialized view, you can avoid the problem
by doing 'REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW CONCURRENTLY'. You will need at least
one unique index on the table.

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