Re: MultiXact\SLRU buffers configuration

Thom Brown <thom@linux.com>

From: Thom Brown <thom@linux.com>
To: "Andrey M. Borodin" <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com>, Andrew Borodin <amborodin86@gmail.com>, Yura Sokolov <y.sokolov@postgrespro.ru>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, Gilles Darold <gilles@darold.net>, Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>, Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers mailing list <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2024-10-31T13:29:56Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Thu, 31 Oct 2024 at 10:47, Andrey M. Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru> wrote:
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> > On 29 Oct 2024, at 21:45, Thom Brown <thom@linux.com> wrote:
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> > It clearly checks for interrupts, but when I saw this issue happen, it
> > wasn't interruptible.
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> Perhaps, that was different multixacts?
> When I was observing this pathology on Standby, it was a stream of different reads encountering different multis.
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> Either way startup can cancel locking process on it's own. Or is it the case that cancel was not enough, did you actually need termination, not cancel?

Termination didn't work on either of the processes.

Thom