Re: Parallel vacuum workers prevent the oldest xmin from advancing

John Naylor <john.naylor@enterprisedb.com>

From: John Naylor <john.naylor@enterprisedb.com>
To: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
Cc: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-11-24T14:15:52Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 7:28 AM Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > The patch looks good to me. But I can't come up with a stable test for
> > this. It seems to be hard without stopping and resuming parallel
> > vacuum workers. Do you have any good idea?
> >
>
> No, let's wait for a day or so to see if anybody else has any ideas to
> write a test for this case, otherwise, I'll check these once again and
> push.

I set this "committed" in the CF app.

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John Naylor
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com

Commits

  1. Fix parallel operations that prevent oldest xmin from advancing.