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Re: hung backends stuck in spinlock heavy endless loop

Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com>

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From: Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com>
To: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2015-01-13T23:54:58Z
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On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 3:50 PM, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I don't remember seeing _bt_moveright()  or _bt_compare() figuring so
>> prominently, where _bt_binsrch() is nowhere to be seen. I can't see a
>> reference to _bt_binsrch() in either profile.
>
> hm, this is hand compiled now, I bet the symbols are wrong.

In case it isn't clear, I think that the proximate cause here may well
be either one (or both) of commits
efada2b8e920adfdf7418862e939925d2acd1b89 and/or
40dae7ec537c5619fc93ad602c62f37be786d161. Probably the latter. I think
that the profile is roughly consistent with that, although I may well
be wrong.

-- 
Peter Geoghegan

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  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.