Re: Hot standby and b-tree killed items

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Hot standby and b-tree killed items
Date: 2008-12-23 08:21:23
Message-ID: 1230020483.4793.701.camel@ebony.2ndQuadrant
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On Sat, 2008-12-20 at 20:09 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> > Gregory Stark wrote:
> >> A vacuum being replayed -- even in a different database -- could trigger the
> >> error. Or with the btree split issue, a data load -- again even in a different
> >> database -- would be quite likely cause your SELECT to be killed.
> >
> > Hmm, I wonder if we should/could track the "latestRemovedXid" separately
> > for each database. There's no reason why we need to kill a read-only
> > query in database X when a table in database Y is vacuumed.
>
> What about shared catalogs?

Hot Standby already covers this special case. Patch uses
GetCurrentVirtualXIDs(), which treats a dbOid of 0 to match against all
databases.

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