Re: On-demand running query plans using auto_explain and signals

From: "Shulgin, Oleksandr" <oleksandr(dot)shulgin(at)zalando(dot)de>
To: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>
Subject: Re: On-demand running query plans using auto_explain and signals
Date: 2015-09-08 16:53:52
Message-ID: CACACo5T8u+=XrDBbtbM4MkXJJ2StxmtpovO5bM3NmrzQiWQsQw@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 11:49 AM, Shulgin, Oleksandr <
oleksandr(dot)shulgin(at)zalando(dot)de> wrote:

>
> >> The real problem could be if the process that was signaled to connect
> to the message queue never handles the interrupt, and we keep waiting
> forever in shm_mq_receive(). We could add a timeout parameter or just let
> the user cancel the call: send a cancellation request, use
> pg_cancel_backend() or set statement_timeout before running this.
> >
> > This is valid question - for begin we can use a statement_timeout and we
> don't need to design some special (if you don't hold some important lock).
> > My example (the code has prototype quality) is little bit longer, but it
> work without global lock - the requester doesn't block any other
>
> I'll update the commitfest patch to use this technique.
>

Please find attached v4.

--
Alex

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explain-pid-v4.patch text/x-patch 22.7 KB

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