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Re: "as quickly as possible" (was: remove spurious CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY wait)

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>

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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>, James Coleman <jtc331@gmail.com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-11-24T02:03:32Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On 2020-Nov-23, Tom Lane wrote:

> I never cared that much for "is_log_level_output" either.  Thinking
> about renaming it to "should_output_to_log()", and then the new function
> would be "should_output_to_client()".

Ah, that sounds nicely symmetric and grammatical.

Thanks!

Commits

  1. Restore lock level to set vacuum flags

  2. Restore lock level to update statusFlags

  3. Avoid spurious waits in concurrent indexing

  4. Centralize logic for skipping useless ereport/elog calls.

  5. Don't hold ProcArrayLock longer than needed in rare cases

  6. Relax lock level for setting PGPROC->statusFlags

  7. Rename PGPROC->vacuumFlags to statusFlags

  8. snapshot scalability: Move PGXACT->vacuumFlags to ProcGlobal->vacuumFlags.

  9. Allow an autovacuum worker to be interrupted automatically when it is found