Re: Interesting tight loop

On Sep 14, 2006, at 7:03 AM, Gregory Stark wrote:

> Theo Schlossnagle <jesus(at)omniti(dot)com> writes:
>
>> But the interesting thing is that there were 4.6 million elements
>> in the
>> s->childXids list. Which is why it took so damn long. I can't
>> quite figure
>> out how I induced this state. It is an OLAP server with about 10-20
>> connection that run "long" queries (from 5 seconds to 24 hours).
>
> Wow, I think that means you've had 4.6 million subtransactions
> within the
> current transaction. Is this a PL/PgSQL function or a script that uses
> SAVEPOINT a lot?

We don't use savepoint's too much. Maybe one or two across out 1k or
so pl/pgsql procs.

We use dbi-link which is plperl. Perhaps that is somehow creating
subtransactions?

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