Re: Streaming Replication Randomly Locking Up

From: Andrew Berman <rexxe98(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Streaming Replication Randomly Locking Up
Date: 2013-08-16 17:24:01
Message-ID: CAEVpa75LPYEVJ0J+WT268+=4gOGE_pGBFaL083w--HuVX--LMA@mail.gmail.com
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Ok, next time it happens I'll try to do more sleuthing to figure out if
that's the issue. For now, I'm going to try adding --timeout=30 to the
rsync command and see if that fixes things.

Thanks again for your help!

Andrew

On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 9:45 AM, Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 1:28 PM, Andrew Berman <rexxe98(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
> >> Hi Jeff,
> >>
> >> Here is the full process list at the time it stopped working (I have
> changed
> >> the actual username, db and IP for security). Would the idle in
> transaction
> >> process be the culprit?
> >
> > Most likely, yes. You should be able to dig into pg_locks to verify.
>
> Actually, you can't. The waiting doesn't show up in pg_locks, because
> it polls in a sleep-loop, rather than doing a normal wait on the lock.
>
> Still, that idle in transaction process is almost surely the culprit.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeff
>

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