Re: Analyze on temp table taking very long

Thanks for the tip. I'll also check in the lock, it's a customer setup and we don't get access to the box very
frequently. 
Also
The code was something like this.

loop
    inserting data into the tmptbl
    analyze tmptbl
end loop

if I replace this with

loop
    inserting data into the tmptbl
end loop
analyze


It goes through fine.

-mridula



-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-performance-owner@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-performance-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Tom Lane
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2011 3:57 PM
To: Mahadevan, Mridula
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Analyze on temp table taking very long

"Mahadevan, Mridula" <Mridula.Mahadevan@ironmountain.com> writes:
> This has been running fine for a while on multiple setups, large and small volumes. The setups all have the same
hardwareconfiguration. 

> On one particular setup with about 200k records and this analyze runs for 45min and then times out(statement timeout
isset to 45 min). typically this takes a few seconds at best. But when I move the analyze outside the loop everything
runsfine. 

Is it actually *running*, as in doing something, or is it just blocked?
I can't immediately think of any reason for some other process to have
a lock on a temp table that belongs to your process; but it seems
unlikely that ANALYZE would randomly take much longer than expected
unless something was preventing it from making progress.

Look into pg_locks and/or watch the backend with strace next time this
happens.

            regards, tom lane

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