From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Chris Campbell <chris(at)bignerdranch(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Deadlock with pg_dump? |
Date: | 2007-02-14 03:19:15 |
Message-ID: | 200702140319.l1E3JFc07136@momjian.us |
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Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 18:45 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Chris Campbell <chris(at)bignerdranch(dot)com> writes:
> > > Is there additional logging information I can turn on to get more
> > > details? I guess I need to see exactly what locks both processes
> > > hold, and what queries they were running when the deadlock occurred?
> > > Is that easily done, without turning on logging for *all* statements?
> >
> > log_min_error_statement = error would at least get you the statements
> > reporting the deadlocks, though not what they're conflicting against.
>
> Yeh, we need a much better locking logger for performance analysis.
>
> We really need to dump the whole wait-for graph for deadlocks, since
> this might be more complex than just two statements involved. Deadlocks
> ought to be so infrequent that we can afford the log space to do this -
> plus if we did this it would likely lead to fewer deadlocks.
>
> For 8.3 I'd like to have a log_min_duration_lockwait (secs) parameter
> that would allow you to dump the wait-for graph for any data-level locks
> that wait too long, rather than just those that deadlock. Many
> applications experience heavy locking because of lack of holistic
> design. That will also show up the need for other utilities to act
> CONCURRENTLY, if possible.
Old email, but I don't see how our current output is not good enough?
test=> lock a;
ERROR: deadlock detected
DETAIL: Process 6855 waits for AccessExclusiveLock on relation 16394 of
database 16384; blocked by process 6795.
Process 6795 waits for AccessExclusiveLock on relation 16396 of database
16384; blocked by process 6855.
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