Re: Query on Postgres locks

Yes and hence my original question- why would the queries and the locks waiting to be granted disappear when there is no timeout?

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-----Original Message-----
From: Jan Harasym [jan.harasym@massive.se]
Received: Thursday, 24 Sep 2015, 20:31
To: Porwal, Utkarsh [utkarsh.porwal@emc.com]; Wei Shan [weishan.ang@gmail.com]
CC: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org [pgsql-admin@postgresql.org]
Subject: RE: [ADMIN] Query on Postgres locks

For many things “0” is “disabled”

 

So there is no timeout, it will wait forever.

 

From: pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Porwal, Utkarsh
Sent: September 24, 2015 12:37 PM
To: Wei Shan
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Query on Postgres locks

 

Hi Wei shan,

 

For me the statement_timeout is defaulted to zero

 

statement_timeout               | 0                                                 | ms

 

Thanks and Regards,

Utkarsh Porwal

 

 

From: Wei Shan [mailto:weishan.ang@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2015 3:49 PM
To: Porwal, Utkarsh
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Query on Postgres locks

 

Hi,

 

If you look at pg_settings table, you can see the default value for statement_timeout. Only from 9.3, there's a parameter called lock_timeout.

 

Cheers.

 

On 24 September 2015 at 17:37, Porwal, Utkarsh <utkarsh.porwal@emc.com> wrote:

The postgres version is –

 

psql (9.0.7)

 

 

From: pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Porwal, Utkarsh
Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2015 3:04 PM
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: [ADMIN] Query on Postgres locks

 

Dear All,

 

I have a perl script which will attempt to drop/recreate some intermediate tables.  This works by trying to acquire an access exclusive lock on the intermediate tables.

 

When there is a backup running through pg_dump, I see an entry in pg_locks/pg_stat_activity table for the above which is waiting for pg_dump to finish, which is expected.

 

Since backup on huge environment takes around 8 hrs to complete, I noticed that the entries waiting for locks are removed after certain amount of time which I couldn’t record even though the perl script is still running.

Do you guys know if the lock waiting will ultimately timeout and when? I don’t have any statement_timeout specified.

 

Any pointers on this behavior?

 

Regards,

Utkarsh

 

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Regards,
Ang Wei Shan