Re: REINDEX deadlock - Postgresql -9.1

From: Anoop K <anoopk6(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Albe Laurenz <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Venkatraju TV <venkatraju(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: REINDEX deadlock - Postgresql -9.1
Date: 2013-02-07 11:00:02
Message-ID: CADK_1hKCk7NdpXuQAgGR1N2HOARVSsKdy85Jviog_zigmQ7CUw@mail.gmail.com
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Actually some of our processes connect as superuser. So even that is over
and is in hung state.

On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>wrote:

> So have you tried connecting as a superuser?
>
> On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 3:19 AM, Anoop K <anoopk6(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > We did run out of conns as our processes which tried to connect (over few
> > days) got hung in 'startup waiting state'. Even superuser conns are also
> > over.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Anoop
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 3:37 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> It sounds like you're running out of connections. Have you tried
> >> connecting as postgres? It has 2 or 3 superuser connections reserved
> >> by default.
> >>
> >> On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 1:38 AM, Anoop K <anoopk6(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> >> > I have the setup in problem state. But I am not able to make psql
> >> > connections to view the lock details.
> >> > psql connections are hanging. Is there any other info which can be
> >> > collected
> >> > in this state ?
> >> >
> >> > Also we don't know the steps to reproduce the issue.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 1:23 PM, Albe Laurenz <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at
> >
> >> > wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> Anoop K wrote:
> >> >> > We are hitting a situation where REINDEX is resulting in postgresql
> >> >> > to
> >> >> > go to dead lock state for ever.
> >> >> > On debugging the issue we found that
> >> >> > 3 connections are going in to some dead lock state.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > 1. idle in transaction
> >> >> > 2. REINDEX waiting
> >> >> > 3. SELECT waiting
> >> >> >
> >> >> > All these connections are made in the same minute. Once in deadlock
> >> >> > state we are not able to make new
> >> >> > connections to db.(So not able to view pg_locks also). New
> >> >> > connections
> >> >> > appears as 'startup waiting' in
> >> >> > ps output. Initially we suspected <idle in transaction> is the
> result
> >> >> > of
> >> >> > not closing a connection. But
> >> >> > it seems it got stuck after creating a connection and is not able
> to
> >> >> > proceed.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Any clues ..
> >> >>
> >> >> Check the contents of pg_locks:
> >> >> What locks does the "idle in transaction" session hold?
> >> >> Who holds the locks that block SELECT, REINDEX and new connections?
> >> >>
> >> >> Turn on log_statement='all' to see what the "idle in transaction"
> >> >> session did since it started.
> >> >>
> >> >> Yours,
> >> >> Laurenz Albe
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.
>

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