Re: Proposal: Log inability to lock pages during vacuum

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)BlueTreble(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Proposal: Log inability to lock pages during vacuum
Date: 2014-12-18 20:55:05
Message-ID: 20141218205505.GC5023@alap3.anarazel.de
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On 2014-12-18 16:41:04 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> + if (scan_all)
> + appendStringInfo(&buf, _("waited for %d buffer pins\n"),
> + vacrelstats->pinned_pages);
> + else
> + appendStringInfo(&buf,
> + _("skipped %d pages due to buffer pins\n"),
> + vacrelstats->pinned_pages);

Unless I miss something this is, as mentioned before, not
correct. scan_all doesn't imply at all that we waited for buffer
pins. We only do so if lazy_check_needs_freeze(buf). Which usually won't
be true for a *significant* number of pages.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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