Improve warnings around CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY
От | Greg Smith |
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Тема | Improve warnings around CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY |
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Msg-id | 4DDB64CB.7070109@2ndQuadrant.com обсуждение исходный текст |
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Re: Improve warnings around CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY
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Список | pgsql-docs |
When running CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY, the DefineIndex() code in src/backend/commands/indexcmds.c does a few things that one would expect from the documentation. And then at the end it executes code described like this: "The index is now valid in the sense that it contains all currently interesting tuples. But since it might not contain tuples deleted just before the reference snap was taken, we have to wait out any transactions that might have older snapshots. Obtain a list of VXIDs of such transactions, and wait for them individually." It's possible to end up with a long series in pg_locks waiting for virtualxid entries at this point, for as long as some set of giant queries takes to execute, and you'll only see them one at a time. The documentation warns: "PostgreSQL must perform two scans of the table, and in addition it must wait for all existing transactions that could potentially use the index to terminate." That's correct, but easy to read the wrong way. I always assumed that this meant it was going to wait behind anything that had a shared lock or such on the table, things that had already accessed it. This is the case with some earlier parts of this same code path. But when it comes to the end here, the scope is actually broader than that. And since there's a session-level lock on the table the whole time this wait loop is executing, that makes considerable secondary havoc possible here. You can end up waiting an unbounded amount of time for some long-running transaction, one not even expected to enter into the rebuild work, to finish, which leaves you no idea what's happening unless you know just what to look for. (Watching such havoc actually happen is what prompted this investigation) What makes it worse is that the wait shows up as a virtualxid one, which doesn't pop up on many common samples of things to look for in pg_locks. It would be reasonable but also incorrect for admins to assume a table one would be visible if running into the case alluded to in the docs. The serial way locks are obtained is unexpected too. Attached patch expands the warnings around this command to reflect both issues: -The waiting time is not necessarily limited to just things that involve the table -The locks it obtains while running this phase of the rebuild are unusual -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US greg@2ndQuadrant.com Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services, and 24x7 Support www.2ndQuadrant.us
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