Hi!
On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 3:17 PM Adrien NAYRAT <adrien.nayrat@anayrat.info> wrote:
> I was faced on $SUBJECT on an heavily updated table and the same table
> heavily accessed on standby server.
>
> I notice autovacuum try to take an AEL in lazy_truncate_heap(). On
> primary we try during VACUUM_TRUNCATE_LOCK_WAIT_INTERVAL (50ms) and we
> failed after several attempts.
>
> But we do not have this mechanism on a standby, AEL could lock simple
> SELECT during the RelationTruncate().
>
> Please note, this can occurs even with hot_standby_feedback = on
>
> I wonder how we can improve this? Maybe by introducing an option to
> disable truncation for autovacuum on specific table?
Please, take a look at following threads:
1. https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/c9374921e50a5e8fb1ecf04eb8c6ebc3%40postgrespro.ru
2. https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAHGQGwE5UqFqSq1%3DkV3QtTUtXphTdyHA-8rAj4A%3DY%2Be4kyp3BQ%40mail.gmail.com
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