Re: ToDo: no blocking (waiting) DDL

From: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: ToDo: no blocking (waiting) DDL
Date: 2016-12-13 12:07:49
Message-ID: CAFj8pRCDWQELe3B01Onf5q1Yu2EaO7uwht6+G2yWfSHZLLx9Hg@mail.gmail.com
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2016-12-13 13:03 GMT+01:00 Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>:

> Pavel Stehule wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I don't remember well, there was maybe similar ToDo.
> >
> > Yesterday I got a incident on high load system when I executed DROP INDEX
> > cmd.
> >
> > This statement waited on a finish of long transaction, but it stopped any
> > other statements.
> >
> > Can be nice when waiting on lock statement doesn't block another
> > statements.
>
> https://postgr.es/m/CAKddOFDz0+F2uspVN5BZgtN7Wp+
> vQbeLuQPWfvGwap5JZvXPxQ(at)mail(dot)gmail(dot)com

yes, it is it. Can be applied on some DDL statements too.

Thank you

regards

Pavel

>
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