Re: Vacuum process waiting on BufferPin

From: Don Seiler <don(at)seiler(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Postgres General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Vacuum process waiting on BufferPin
Date: 2018-08-13 21:19:42
Message-ID: CAHJZqBA5fhYScUba3G6YFoL_A2AxnDzUv9HDG3UQ-JpLbddOhw@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 4:15 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
wrote:

>
> Maybe you had a cursor that was not fully scanned before the session was
> left idle -- as I recall, those can leave buffers pinned.
>

I don't quite follow this. What circumstances would lead to this situation?

For what its worth, these sessions are backend reporting jobs, not user
interfacing at all.

Don.

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