Re: Add progressive backoff to XactLockTableWait functions

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)oss(dot)nttdata(dot)com>
Cc: Xuneng Zhou <xunengzhou(at)gmail(dot)com>, Kevin K Biju <kevinkbiju(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Add progressive backoff to XactLockTableWait functions
Date: 2025-07-02 14:04:23
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Hi,

On 2025-07-02 22:55:16 +0900, Fujii Masao wrote:
> On 2025/06/24 1:32, Xuneng Zhou wrote:
> > 3. The proposed solution
> >
> > If the above analysis is sound, one potential fix would be to add
> > separate branching for standby in XactLockTableWait. However, this seems
> > inconsistent with the function's definition—there's simply no lock entry
> > in the lock table for waiting. We could implement a new function for
> > this logic,
>
> To be honest, I'm fine with v3, since it only increases the sleep time
> after 5000 loop iterations, which has negligible performance impact.

I think this is completely the wrong direction. We should make
XactLockTableWait() on standbys, not make the polling smarter.

I think neither v3 nor v4 are viable patches.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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