Re: Race condition in 7.1.2?

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On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Steve Frampton wrote:

> But I noticed, sometimes, the final stage of my processing never
> completes, and PostgreSQL is spiralling the CPU at almost 100%. I
> have to kill the process, which is thankfully detected by my
> application which does a rollback.
>
> Anyway, I'm quite sure it isn't my software that is causing this, because
> if I do a simple vacuum after the rollback, and then run the same sequence
> again, the final stage completes as quickly as I've come to expect.

Just thought I'd add that, when my process runs normally, PostgreSQL takes
between 30% and 50% of CPU. Only when this mysterious condition occurs
does it hit near 100%. Also, I happened to notice upon vacuuming the DB
the last time this happened, slightly larger than a multiple of my tuples
were deleted from the index -- which seems to indicate that my application
did the processing it was supposed to have done, but somehow PostgreSQL
got "stuck" on the final update.

Strange.

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