Re: query locks up when run concurrently - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Adrian Klaver
Subject Re: query locks up when run concurrently
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Msg-id 2dbdddc7-039f-fd8a-0cfb-f6e887dbeb9d@aklaver.com
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In response to Re: query locks up when run concurrently  (azhwkd <azhwkd@gmail.com>)
List pgsql-general
On 11/24/2016 02:14 PM, azhwkd wrote:
>
> Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com
> <mailto:adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>> schrieb am Do., 24. Nov. 2016 um
> 22:34 Uhr:
>
>     On 11/24/2016 01:23 PM, azhwkd wrote:
>     > It should not be possible because a group does not return to the
>     > update pool before the update hasn't finished.
>
>     So what is this 'update pool' and what is driving/using it?
>
>     In other words how is the determination of the parameters done?
>
>     To be more specific, the implication is that a group id can be reused so
>     what determines that?
>
>
> The application is written in go. Every group ID has its own go routine
> and the routine is blocked until the SQL statement returns.
> The update process starts with a check to an external API endpoint and
> if there is new data available the routine is downloading it, parsing it
> and inserting the data into 2 tables. Once that is done, the routine
> continues to execute the statement in question using the data it
> inserted before for the calculation. Only once this finishes will the
> routine start over again.
>
>
>
>     > I watched the queries in a postgres client and there was no
>     overlap I could see.
>
>     Was this a visual inspection or did you dump the results of the various
>     query/parameter combinations into tables and do an SQL comparison?
>
>
> I inspected it visually and also dumped all variables into a file
> directly from the application.
>
>
>
>     > I don't really know what to make from this behavior, sometimes when I
>     > start the application a few updates go through and eventually it will
>     > lock up completely and sometimes it locks up immediately - always with
>
>     Is there a common thread with regard to the parameters in use when
>     things lock up?
>
>
> Do you mean if it always locks on the same parameters? If so then it
> does not, sadly
>

Yes, that would have been too easy. I'm out of ideas for the moment. Rob
Stones post looks promising though.


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