Theo Schlossnagle <jesus@omniti.com> writes:
> But the interesting thing is that there were 4.6 million elements in the
> s->childXids list. Which is why it took so damn long. I can't quite figure
> out how I induced this state. It is an OLAP server with about 10-20
> connection that run "long" queries (from 5 seconds to 24 hours).
Wow, I think that means you've had 4.6 million subtransactions within the
current transaction. Is this a PL/PgSQL function or a script that uses
SAVEPOINT a lot?
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