Heikki, On 2015-07-20 13:27:12 +0200, Andres Freund wrote: > On 2015-07-20 13:22:42 +0200, Andres Freund wrote: > > Hm. The problem seems to be the WaitXLogInsertionsToFinish() call in > > XLogFlush(). > > These are the relevant stack traces: > db9lock/debuglog-commit.txt > #2 0x00007f7405bd44f4 in LWLockWaitForVar (l=0x7f70f2ab6680, valptr=0x7f70f2ab66a0, oldval=<optimized out>, newval=0xffffffffffffffff) at /tmp/buildd/postgresql-9.4-9.4.4/build/../src/backend/storage/lmgr/lwlock.c:1011 > #3 0x00007f7405a0d3e6 in WaitXLogInsertionsToFinish (upto=121713318915952) at /tmp/buildd/postgresql-9.4-9.4.4/build/../src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c:1755 > #4 0x00007f7405a0e1d3 in XLogFlush (record=121713318911056) at /tmp/buildd/postgresql-9.4-9.4.4/build/../src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c:2849 > > db9lock/debuglog-insert-8276.txt > #1 0x00007f7405b77d91 in PGSemaphoreLock (sema=0x7f73ff6531d0, interruptOK=0 '\000') at pg_sema.c:421 > #2 0x00007f7405bd4849 in LWLockAcquireCommon (val=<optimized out>, valptr=<optimized out>, mode=<optimized out>, l=<optimized out>) at /tmp/buildd/postgresql-9.4-9.4.4/build/../src/backend/storage/lmgr/lwlock.c:626 > #3 LWLockAcquire (l=0x7f70ecaaa1a0, mode=LW_EXCLUSIVE) at /tmp/buildd/postgresql-9.4-9.4.4/build/../src/backend/storage/lmgr/lwlock.c:467 > #4 0x00007f7405a0dcca in AdvanceXLInsertBuffer (upto=<optimized out>, opportunistic=<optimized out>) at /tmp/buildd/postgresql-9.4-9.4.4/build/../src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c:2161 > #5 0x00007f7405a0e301 in GetXLogBuffer (ptr=121713318928384) at /tmp/buildd/postgresql-9.4-9.4.4/build/../src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c:1848 > #6 0x00007f7405a0e9c9 in CopyXLogRecordToWAL (EndPos=<optimized out>, StartPos=<optimized out>, rdata=0x7ffff1c21b90, isLogSwitch=<optimized out>, write_len=<optimized out>) at /tmp/buildd/postgresql-9.4-9.4.4/build/../src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c:1494 > #7 XLogInsert (rmid=<optimized out>, info=<optimized out>, rdata=<optimized out>) at /tmp/buildd/postgre XLogFlush() has the following comment: /* * Re-check how far we can now flush the WAL. It's generally not * safe to call WaitXLogInsertionsToFinish while holding * WALWriteLock, because an in-progress insertion might need to * also grab WALWriteLock to make progress. But we know that all * the insertions up to insertpos have already finished, because * that's what the earlier WaitXLogInsertionsToFinish() returned. * We're only calling it again to allow insertpos to be moved * further forward, not to actually wait for anyone. */ insertpos = WaitXLogInsertionsToFinish(insertpos); but I don't think that's valid reasoning. WaitXLogInsertionsToFinish() calls LWLockWaitForVar(oldval = InvalidXLogRecPtr), which will block if there's a exlusive locker and some backend doesn't yet have set initializedUpto. Which seems like a ossible state? -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general