Re: Hot standby and b-tree killed items

From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Hot standby and b-tree killed items
Date: 2008-12-21 08:19:25
Message-ID: 494DFC0D.4000108@enterprisedb.com
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>> Gregory Stark wrote:
>>> A vacuum being replayed -- even in a different database -- could trigger the
>>> error. Or with the btree split issue, a data load -- again even in a different
>>> database -- would be quite likely cause your SELECT to be killed.
>> Hmm, I wonder if we should/could track the "latestRemovedXid" separately
>> for each database. There's no reason why we need to kill a read-only
>> query in database X when a table in database Y is vacuumed.
>
> What about shared catalogs?

True, vacuums on shared catalogs would affect read-only queries on all
databases.

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Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

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