Re: cancelled queries on standby

On 11/15/2011 05:46 AM, MirrorX wrote:
> i am facing an issue concerning cancelled queries made on a hot standby
> server. if we suppose that there are some tables that are never changed (no
> inserts/updates/deletes) and that autovacuum is set to false for these
> tables, what else could there be affecting these tables and consequently
> cancelling my queries? thx in advance for any suggestions
>

Query cancellation isn't targeted this way.  Whether or not a query
needs to be canceled by vacuum cleanup depends on whether any open
transaction can see the rows that are being cleaned up.  I think you
have the understandable belief what rows are actually being viewed by
the query running on the standby matter; they don't.

Let's say you have a long-running query Q accessing a table A on the
standby.  Then some vacuum cleanup of table B happens on the master.  Q
can then be canceled when those cleanup records are replicated.  The
fact that A is never changed and doesn't have autovacuum enabled doesn't
matter.  Because it's possible for Q to see B, it's canceled regardless
of whether it's looked at it yet.

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