At 06:21 PM 3/05/2004, Philip Warner wrote:
>'tuple concurrently updated'

I lied. The database DO NOT logs show the same error in each case where a 
long delay has occurred. It happens sometimes; recent process logs do show 
the 'async_notify waiting' status, however.

I'll try not to send any more emails until someone responds ;-)



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Mon, 03 May 2004 19:33:40 +1000
Philip Warner <pjw@rhyme.com.au>
Re: ANALYZE locks pg_listener in EXCLUSIVE for long
At 07:33 PM 3/05/2004, Philip Warner wrote:
>I'll try not to send any more emails until someone responds ;-)

I also noticed this in SIInsertDataEntry sinvaladt.c:

         /*
          * Try to prevent table overflow.  When the table is 70% full send a
          * WAKEN_CHILDREN request to the postmaster.  The postmaster will send
          * a SIGUSR2 signal (ordinarily a NOTIFY signal) to all the backends.
          * This will force idle backends to execute a transaction to look
          * through pg_listener for NOTIFY messages, and as a byproduct of the
          * transaction start they will read SI entries.
          *
          * This should never happen if all the backends are actively executing
          * queries, but if a backend is sitting idle then it won't be starting
          * transactions and so won't be reading SI entries.
          *
          * dz - 27 Jan 1998
          */

Would a long-running ANALYZE (or other activity on a busy database) cause 
the shared buffers to get to the 70% threshold while doing a long-running 
ANALYZE?



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Mon, 03 May 2004 23:06:38 +1000
Philip Warner <pjw@rhyme.com.au>
Re: ANALYZE locks pg_listener in EXCLUSIVE for long