Re: Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Fix TransactionIdIsCurrentTransactionId() to use binary search

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Fix TransactionIdIsCurrentTransactionId() to use binary search
Date: 2008-04-21 16:54:24
Message-ID: 20080421165424.GC14464@alvh.no-ip.org
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Robert Treat wrote:

> Unfortunatly I don't have the 8.1 system to bang on anymore for this, (though
> anecdotaly speaking, I never saw this behavior in 8.1) however I do now have
> a parallel 8.3 system crunching the data, and it is showing the same symptom
> (yes, 2 8.3 servers, crunching the same data, both bogged down now), so I do
> feel this is something specific to 8.3.
>
> I am mostly wondering if anyone else has encountered behavior like this on 8.3
> (large sets of insert....update exception block in plpgsql bogging down), or
> if anyone has any thoughts on which direction I should poke at it from here.
> TIA.

Perhaps what you could do is backpatch the change and see if the problem
goes away.

--
Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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