From: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | vadim(at)krs(dot)ru (Vadim Mikheev) |
Cc: | hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] MVCC works in serialized mode! |
Date: | 1998-12-18 19:49:40 |
Message-ID: | 199812181949.OAA11139@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >
> > > 6. I'm not happy with current deadlock detection code!
> > > It seems that backend does DeadLockCheck each time
> > > when timer expired - shouldn't this be done _once_,
> > > before backend is going to sleep ?!
> >
> > Not sure. Now that I think of it, it makes sense that if I go to sleep,
> > a deadlock is not sudenly going to appear while I am asleep. If a new
> > process causes a deadlock, the new process that causes it will see it.
> >
> > I did not check when I went to sleep because I thought it may be too
> > cpu-intensive to do checking on every sleep, but now that I remember it,
> > it may be very trivial in cpu time to do the check on every sleep.
> >
> > I recommend changing it to do it just before every sleep. Let me know
> > if you want me to make the change.
>
> May be we could just reduce first sleep time (60 sec is too long),
> do DeadLockCheck _only once_, after first SIGALARM, and after that
> just sleep forever ?
> Why do DeadLockCheck many times ?
>
> Let's think more...
>
> And please consider when lock conflict occures:
>
> 1. One process tries update row being updated by other.
> 2. When reading/writing hashes (I hope to change btrees to
> use new buffer context lock code, as heap access methods
> do, - this is short term locking without deadlocks and so -
> without using lockmanager).
>
> Vadim
>
I have applied the following patch. It causes only one deadlock check
after a sleep of one second. Applied only to the CURRENT tree.
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