On Fri, 2020-11-13 at 15:24 +0200, Radoslav Nedyalkov wrote:
> On a very busy master-standby setup which runs typical olap processing -
> long living , massive writes statements, we're getting on the standby:
>
> ERROR: canceling statement due to conflict with recovery
> FATAL: terminating connection due to conflict with recovery
>
> The weird thing is that cancellations happen usually after standby has experienced
> some huge delay(2h), still not at the allowed maximum(3h). Even recently run statements
> got cancelled when the delay is already at zero.
>
> Sometimes the situation got relaxed after an hour or so.
> Restarting the server instantly helps.
>
> It is pg11.8, centos7, hugepages, shared_buffers 196G from 748G.
>
> What phenomenon could we be facing?
Hard to say. Perhaps an unusual kind of replication conflict?
What is in "pg_stat_database_conflicts" on the standby server?
Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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