Re: subscriptionCheck failures on nightjar

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Kuntal Ghosh <kuntalghosh(dot)2007(at)gmail(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: subscriptionCheck failures on nightjar
Date: 2019-09-20 22:06:20
Message-ID: 20190920220620.GA5214@alvherre.pgsql
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On 2019-Sep-20, Tom Lane wrote:

> Actually, what I did was as attached [1], and I am getting traces like
> [2]. The problem seems to occur only when there are two or three
> processes concurrently creating the same snapshot file. It's not
> obvious from the debug trace, but the snapshot file *does* exist
> after the music stops.

Uh .. I didn't think it was possible that we would build the same
snapshot file more than once. Isn't that a waste of time anyway? Maybe
we can fix the symptom by just not doing that in the first place?
I don't have a strategy to do that, but seems worth considering before
retiring the bf animals.

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Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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