From: | Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horiguchi(dot)kyotaro(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp> |
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To: | michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz |
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Subject: | Re: pgsql: Improve autovacuum logging for aggressive and anti-wraparound ru |
Date: | 2018-10-09 09:15:36 |
Message-ID: | 20181009.181536.142257785.horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp |
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At Fri, 5 Oct 2018 15:35:04 +0900, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> wrote in <20181005063504(dot)GB14664(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
> On Fri, Oct 05, 2018 at 12:16:03PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> > So, I have come back to this stuff, and finished with the attached
> > instead, so as the assertion is in a single place. I find that
> > clearer. The comments have also been improved. Thoughts?
>
> And so... I have been looking at committing this thing, and while
> testing in-depth I have been able to trigger a case where an autovacuum
> has been able to be not aggressive but anti-wraparound, which is exactly
> what should not be possible, no? I have simply created an instance with
> autovacuum_freeze_max_age = 200000, then ran pgbench with
> autovacuum_freeze_table_age=200000 set for each table, and also ran
> installcheck-world in parallel. This has been able to trigger the
> assertion pretty quickly.
I investigated it and in short, it can happen.
It is a kind of race consdition between two autovacuum
processes. do_autovacuum() looks into pg_class (using a snapshot)
and vacuum_set_xid_limits() looks into relcache. If concurrent
vacuum happens and one has finished the relation, another gets
relcache invalidation and relfrozenxid is updated. If this
happens between do_autovacuum() and vacuum_set_xid_limits(), the
latter sees newer relfrozenxid than the former. The problem
happens when it moves by more than 5% of
autovacuum_freeze_max_age.
If lazy_vacuum_rel() sees the situation, the relation is already
aggressively vacuumed by a cocurrent worker. We can just ingore
the state safely but also we know that the vacuum is useless.
1. Just allow the case there (and add comment).
Causes redundant anti-wraparound vacuum.
2. Skip the relation by the condition.
I think that we can safely skip the relation in the
case. (attached)
3. Ensure that do_autovacuum always sees the same relfrozenxid
with vacuum_set_xid_limits().
4. Prevent concurrent acuuming of the same relation rigorously,
somehow.
Thoughts?
regards.
--
Kyotaro Horiguchi
NTT Open Source Software Center
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