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RE: [HACKERS] 6.6 items

Jackson, DeJuan <djackson@cpsgroup.com> — 1999-06-08T17:31:41Z

What about potential deadlocking issues with vacuum?  Haven't tried to
deadlock vacuum, but wondering if it's possible.
	-DEJ

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Bruce Momjian [SMTP:maillist@candle.pha.pa.us]
> Sent:	Tuesday, June 08, 1999 11:41 AM
> To:	Thomas Lockhart
> Cc:	Vadim Mikheev; Don Baccus; ZEUGSWETTER Andreas IZ5;
> pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org; 'kar@webline.dk'
> Subject:	Re: [HACKERS] 6.6 items
> 
> > > Or you talk that this should be mentioned in 
> > > announcement/release notes?
> > 
> > I've added a mention of this in the release notes, and (Bruce) since
> > I'll be regenerating INSTALL and HISTORY it will be included in those.
> > I *should* be able to retrofit it into admin.ps.gz also...
> 
> Added to release notes:
> 
>         Another big benefit of MVCC is that
> <application>pg_dump</application>
>         can now generate consistent backups of live, active databases,
> without
>         blocking active transactions.
> 
> Good idea to add this.  I also added to the Enhancements list:
> 
> pg_dump now can generate consistent snapshots on active databases(Vadim) 
> 
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Re: [HACKERS] 6.6 items

Vadim Mikheev <vadim@krs.ru> — 1999-06-08T17:52:06Z

"Jackson, DeJuan" wrote:
> 
> What about potential deadlocking issues with vacuum?  Haven't tried to
> deadlock vacuum, but wondering if it's possible.

Shouldn't be possible.

Vacuum never acquires AccessExclusive lock on more than
one table at once. This lock is released immediately
after a relation processed.

SELECT/COPY_TO queries from pg_dump lock relations
in AccessShare mode for duration of query.

Vadim