From: | Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Mark Steben <msteben(at)autorevenue(dot)com>, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Concurrency question |
Date: | 2009-07-07 22:04:49 |
Message-ID: | dcc563d10907071504nbb7fdc1r96b6a65b2ffda8f9@mail.gmail.com |
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On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Tom Lane<tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> 2009/7/7 Mark Steben <msteben(at)autorevenue(dot)com>:
>>> I ran a vacuum verbose analyze on a database over the weekend. It ran fine
>>> until it tried to vacuum a table less than 2000 pages. It successfully
>>> acquired a ShareUpdateExclusiveLock as I would expect.
>>> There was an idle thread that had an AccessSharelock on the same table.
>>> Compatible locks I would think. But the vacuum hung until the
>>> AccessSharelock thread was cancelled - 11 hours in all.
>>> This table normally vacuums in less than 15 seconds. This AccessSharelock
>>> came from a query that formerly was part of a transaction sent from a remote
>>> server.
>
>> Not sure what you mean by formerly was part of a transaction. If the
>> transaction has rolled back, then the vacuum can proceed. If the
>> transaction is till open, then it's not formerly a part of it, it IS a
>> part of it. Either way, open transactions block vacuum on updated
>> tables.
>
> Uh, no, they don't.
>
> The described situation is impossible: AccessSharelock doesn't block
> ShareUpdateExclusiveLock. There must have been some other lock or
> attempted lock involved (perhaps at a page or tuple level rather than
> the whole-relation level). But we can't tell much from this much detail.
So something like alter table or something? I do know that vacuum
full is blocked by updates and such.
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