Re: Streaming Replication Randomly Locking Up - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Jeff Janes
Subject Re: Streaming Replication Randomly Locking Up
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In response to Re: Streaming Replication Randomly Locking Up  (Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com>)
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On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 9:45 AM, Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 1:28 PM, Andrew Berman <rexxe98@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Jeff,
>>
>> Here is the full process list at the time it stopped working (I have changed
>> the actual username, db and IP for security).  Would the idle in transaction
>> process be the culprit?
>
> Most likely, yes.  You should be able to dig into pg_locks to verify.

Actually, you can't.  The waiting doesn't show up in pg_locks, because
it polls in a sleep-loop, rather than doing a normal wait on the lock.

Still, that idle in transaction process is almost surely the culprit.

Cheers,

Jeff


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