Re: dblink doesn't honor interrupts while waiting a result - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Decibel!
Subject Re: dblink doesn't honor interrupts while waiting a result
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Msg-id 20080306205754.GA1212@decibel.org
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In response to dblink doesn't honor interrupts while waiting a result  ("Florian G. Pflug" <fgp@phlo.org>)
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On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 04:45:43AM +0100, Florian G. Pflug wrote:
> dblink in 8.3 blocks without any possibility of interrupting it while
> waiting for an answer from the remote server. Here is a strace
> [pid 27607] rt_sigaction(SIGPIPE, {SIG_IGN}, {SIG_IGN}, 8) = 0
> [pid 27607] sendto(56, "Q\0\0\0008lock table travelhit.booking_code in
> exclusive mode\0", 57, 0, NULL, 0) = 57
> [pid 27607] rt_sigaction(SIGPIPE, {SIG_IGN}, {SIG_IGN}, 8) = 0
> [pid 27607] poll([{fd=56, events=POLLIN|POLLERR}], 1, -1) = ?
> ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK (To be restarted)
> [pid 27607] --- SIGTERM (Terminated) @ 0 (0) ---
> [pid 27607] rt_sigreturn(0xf)           = -1 EINTR (Interrupted system call)
> [pid 27607] poll(
>
> As you can see I'm trying to lock the table travelhit.booking_code,
> which blocks because someone else is already holding that lock. When
> I send a SIGTERM to the backend, the poll() syscalll is interruped -
> but immediatly restarted.
>
> I'm not sure how a proper fix for this could look like, since the
> blocking actually happens inside libpq - but this certainly makes
> working with dblink painfull...

FWIW, I've had problems with dblink getting wedged somewhere in it's
communication with another server. I'm not sure at what stage this
happens (getting results, sending a query, etc). The only way I've found
to clear it is to restart the database the connection was coming from.
Dunno if this is related or not...
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