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Re: hung backends stuck in spinlock heavy endless loop

Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>

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From: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>
To: Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2015-01-15T00:53:40Z
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On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 6:50 PM, Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com> wrote:
> This is great, but it's not exactly clear which bt_page_items() page
> is which - some are skipped, but I can't be sure which. Would you mind
> rewriting that query to indicate which block is under consideration by
> bt_page_items()?

yeah.  via:
cds2=# \copy (select s as page, (bt_page_items('pg_class_oid_index',
s)).* from generate_series(1,12) s) to '/tmp/page_items.csv' csv
header;

merlin

Commits

  1. Improve hash_create's API for selecting simple-binary-key hash functions.

  2. Fix WAL-logging of B-tree "unlink halfdead page" operation.

  3. Fix backup-block numbering in redo of b-tree split.

  4. Cleanup of new b-tree page deletion code.

  5. Fix bug in the new B-tree incomplete-split code.

  6. Fix bug in new B-tree page deletion code.

  7. Fix rm_desc routine of b-tree page delete records.

  8. Make the handling of interrupted B-tree page splits more robust.

  9. Fix race condition in B-tree page deletion.