Re: Commit with wait event on advisory lock!

On 1/22/25 11:17 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> By the way I also have commits which are waiting on ClientRead...
>
> That, on the other hand, is surely impossible. I think maybe you
> are misreading the stats display. Typically I'd expect that such a
> case indicates that the session is idle (awaiting a new command)
> and the COMMIT is the last thing it did before that.
>
> regards, tom lane

I can reproduce the issue using pgbench spamming "BEGIN; COMMIT;" and
and running this query in psql:

SELECT DISTINCT state, wait_event, query
FROM pg_stat_activity
WHERE backend_type ILIKE '%client%'
AND query ILIKE 'COMMIT%'
\watch 0.5

After a short while I get the following :

active | ClientRead | COMMIT;

I looked into src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c and found that
the state comes from the PgBackendStatus array, while the wait
events are fetched from the proc array (using st_procpid taken
from the backend status).

I don't think there is a guarantee that this "snapshot" is
consistent across both arrays. It might just be a case of spamming
pg_stat_activity and occasionally ending up with an "inconsistent
snapshot."

Do you think this explanation holds weight?

I haven't been able to reproduce the advisory lock issue yet.

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