Re: Improving connection scalability: GetSnapshotData() - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: Improving connection scalability: GetSnapshotData()
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Msg-id 20200816203153.xqfvuevinjkweuez@alap3.anarazel.de
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In response to Re: Improving connection scalability: GetSnapshotData()  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Improving connection scalability: GetSnapshotData()  (Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>)
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Hi,

On 2020-08-16 16:17:23 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> I wrote:
> > It seems entirely likely that there's a timing component in this, for
> > instance autovacuum coming along at just the right time.
> 
> D'oh.  The attached seems to make it 100% reproducible.

Great!  It interestingly didn't work as the first item on the schedule,
where I had duplicated it it to out of impatience. I guess there might
be some need of concurrent autovacuum activity or something like that.

I now luckily have a rr trace of the problem, so I hope I can narrow it
down to the original problem fairly quickly.

Thanks,

Andres



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