Re: Allowing VACUUM to time out when waiting for - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Philip Warner
Subject Re: Allowing VACUUM to time out when waiting for
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Msg-id 6.2.0.14.0.20050130174558.056d4580@203.8.195.10
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In response to Re: Allowing VACUUM to time out when waiting for locks?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Allowing VACUUM to time out when waiting for locks?
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At 02:53 AM 30/01/2005, Tom Lane wrote:
>Philip Warner <pjw@rhyme.com.au> writes:
> > We have a frequently updated (peak > 5/sec) table with about 1000 rows.
> > We run VACCUM FULL on this table every 5 minutes.
>
>Plain vacuum (perhaps executed even more often, like
>once a minute) will cause fewer locking headaches.

We have done both in the past, but found some tables still just grew 
(perhaps just because of infrequent locks that prevented the plain VACUUM). 
I'll go back to the plain VACUUM and monitor the table growth.

Am I correct in saying that the FSM now tracks the entire table, and that 
the FSM parameters just determine how much is stored in memory?


>I think you could do that by setting a statement timeout.

This would be a good solution if we still see growth with plain VACUUM.


Is any type of opportunistic locking likely/planned for a future version 
(ie. a has lock, b asks for conflicting lock, c asks for lock that is OK 
with a but denied by b; so c's lock is allowed and b stays waiting).




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