Re: Adding REPACK [concurrently] - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Antonin Houska
Subject Re: Adding REPACK [concurrently]
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Msg-id 29614.1774524229@localhost
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In response to Re: Adding REPACK [concurrently]  (Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>)
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Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at> wrote:

> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote:

> > As for lock upgrade, I wonder if the best way to handle this isn't to
> > hack the deadlock detector so that it causes any *other* process to die,
> > if they detect that they would block on REPACK.  Arguably there's
> > nothing that you can do to a table while its undergoing REPACK
> > CONCURRENTLY; any alterations would have to wait until the repacking is
> > compelted.  We can implement that idea simply enough, as shown in this
> > crude prototype.  (I omitted the last three patches in the series, and
> > squashed my proposed changes into 0003, as announced in my previous
> > posting.)

If we take this approach, some comments on deadlock need to be adjusted - see
my proposals in nocfbot_comments_deadlock.diff.

Besides that, nocfbot_comment_cluster_rel.diff suggests one more comment
change that does not depend on the deadlock detection - I forgot to change it
when implementing the lock upgrade.

Also the commit message of 0003 needs to be adjusted. (Does it need to mention
the problem at all?)

-- 
Antonin Houska
Web: https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com


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