Re: pg_locks doesn't check for interrupts? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: pg_locks doesn't check for interrupts?
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Msg-id 17240.1416336452@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to pg_locks doesn't check for interrupts?  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
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Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
> Since querying pg_locks can be intrusive due to needing to lock the lock
> partitions, when I'm collecting data about locks I generally put a
> statement_timeout on it.  However, I'm noticing that this
> statement_timeout appears to be completely ignored; I've seen this query
> run for up to 10 minutes* when the database is heavily loaded.  This it
> seems likely to me that the functions under pg_locks aren't checking for
> interrupts.  Anybody checked this already?

Whether they do or not, I don't think we allow CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS to
trigger while holding an LWLock.  So this would not be a trivial thing
to fix.
        regards, tom lane



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