Re: syslog enabled causes random hangs? - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Arthur Ward
Subject Re: syslog enabled causes random hangs?
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Msg-id 16572.68.62.129.152.1060190049.squirrel@www.dominionsciences.com
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In response to Re: syslog enabled causes random hangs?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: syslog enabled causes random hangs?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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> It looks to me like the guy doing VACUUM is simply waiting for the other
> guy to release a page-level lock.  The other guy is running a deferred
> trigger and so I'd expect him to be holding one or two page-level locks,
> on the page or pages containing the tuple or tuples passed to the
> trigger.  Nothing evidently wrong there.

If I remember what I was working on the other day when this whole thing
started, I think it was a single backend and a checkpoint that collided.
I'll trace that combination, assuming it happens again.

> The real question is why does vsyslog() have anything to block on, when
> it's running in an unthreaded process?  Seeing that you are using
> plpython, I wonder if Python is confusing matters somehow.

Oof. I'm using plpython all over the place; I don't think this problem has
happened in any location that can work without it easily. :-/




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