| From: | Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
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| To: | Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Guillaume Smet <guillaume(dot)smet(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Matthew T(dot) O'Connor" <matthew(at)zeut(dot)net>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: First steps with 8.3 and autovacuum launcher |
| Date: | 2007-10-04 15:45:46 |
| Message-ID: | 47050AAA.9050501@enterprisedb.com |
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Gregory Stark wrote:
> "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
>
>> Hmm, it looks like the race condition Heikki mentioned is the culprit.
>> We need a way to stop future analyzes from starting. Back to the
>> drawing board ...
>
> A crazy idea I just had -- what if you roll this into the deadlock check? So
> after waiting on the lock for 1s it wakes up, finds that the holder it's
> waiting on is an autovacuum process and cancels it instead of finding no
> deadlock.
Another idea would be to make no changes to the relation_openrv call,
but have autovacuum periodically check if anyone's blocked waiting on
its locks, and commit suicide (or set cost delay to zero) if so.
--
Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
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