Re: weird hang while running in HS mode

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: weird hang while running in HS mode
Date: 2010-05-13 11:40:39
Message-ID: 1273750839.308.1489.camel@ebony
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On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 20:13 +0900, Fujii Masao wrote:
> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 19:32 +0900, Fujii Masao wrote:
> >> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 7:22 PM, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> >> > On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 19:08 +0900, Fujii Masao wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> I was able to reproduce such a hang by not executing another
> >> >> transaction after rollback. In this case, walsender cannot replicate
> >> >> the rollback since it's not in the disk.
> >> >
> >> > WALWriter is not active?
> >>
> >> WALWriter is active, but unfortunately it doesn't flush all of the WAL
> >> records in wal_buffers. Please see XLogBackgroundFlush().
> >
> > Yes, I wrote it. It flushes after at most 3 cycles, stated in comments.
>
> Yeah, what is worse is that RecordTransactionAbort() doesn't update the
> XLogCtl->asyncCommitLSN, so rollback might not be flushed even after at
> 3 cycles.

Well spotted. Fix applied, thanks both.

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Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com

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