Re: BUG #15290: Stuck Parallel Index Scan query

пн, 23 июл. 2018 г. в 11:47, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com>:

> On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 7:57 PM, Victor Yegorov <vyegorov@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > - `ERROR:  canceling statement due to conflict with recovery`, happened
> > right when our problematic query started, same user
>
> Ok, so that would explain how the master was cancelled.  In 2877's
> stack we see that it was aborting here:
>

Right:

ERROR:  canceling statement due to conflict with recovery
DETAIL:  User was holding shared buffer pin for too long.


>
> #11 0x00007f539697ba5e in PostgresMain (argc=1,
> argv=argv@entry=0x7f5398d1bbc8, dbname=0x7f5398d1bb98 "coub",
> username=0x7f5398d1bbb0 "app") at
>
> /build/postgresql-10-U6N320/postgresql-10-10.4/build/../src/backend/tcop/postgres.c:3879
>
> That line calls AbortCurrentTransaction(), just after the call to
> EmitErrorReport() that wrote something in your log.  Andres's theory
> (interrupts 'held') seems promising... perhaps there could be a bug
> where parallel index scans leak a share-locked page or something like
> that.  I tried to reproduce this a bit, but no cigar so far.  I wonder
> if there could be something about your bloated index that reaches
> buggy behaviour...
>
> If you happen to have a core file for a worker that is waiting in
> ConditionVariableSleep(), or it happens again, you'd be able to see if
> an LWLock is causing this by printing num_held_lwlocks.
>

No, we do not have core files around. And so far I was not able to
reproduce this situation.
I will keep monitoring. In case I'll hit it again — what else (except for
num_held_lwlocks)
should I check for?

-- 
Victor Yegorov