Re: Re: new patch of MERGE (merge_204) & a question about duplicated ctid

From: Marko Tiikkaja <marko(dot)tiikkaja(at)cs(dot)helsinki(dot)fi>
To: Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Boxuan Zhai <bxzhai2010(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Re: new patch of MERGE (merge_204) & a question about duplicated ctid
Date: 2010-12-30 11:46:58
Message-ID: 4D1C7132.60804@cs.helsinki.fi
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On 2010-12-30 9:02 AM +0200, Greg Smith wrote:
> Marko Tiikkaja wrote:
>> I have no idea why it worked in the past, but the patch was never
>> designed to work for UPSERT. This has been discussed in the past and
>> some people thought that that's not a huge deal.
>
> It takes an excessively large lock when doing UPSERT, which means its
> performance under a heavy concurrent load can't be good. The idea is
> that if the syntax and general implementation issues can get sorted out,
> fixing the locking can be a separate performance improvement to be
> implemented later. Using MERGE for UPSERT is the #1 use case for this
> feature by a gigantic margin. If that doesn't do what's expected, the
> whole implementation doesn't provide the community anything really worth
> talking about. That's why I keep hammering on this particular area in
> all my testing.

I'm confused. Are you saying that the patch is supposed to lock the
table against concurrent INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE/MERGE? Because I don't
see it in the patch, and the symptoms you're having are a clear
indication of the fact that it's not happening. I also seem to recall
that people thought locking the table would be excessive.

Regards,
Marko Tiikkaja

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