On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 10:27 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
Steve Kehlet <steve.kehlet@gmail.com> writes: > Yeah head scratch. That is really weird. Still gathering data, any way I > can see for sure when these cleanup cycles are occurring?
contrib/pgstattuple has a function that can report the current size of the pending list for a GIN index. If you were to capture that every so often, it'd be pretty easy to confirm or refute whether these episodes are associated with list cleanup.
Thank you, I found it, this could be very helpful, we'll try it out on some dev boxes.
