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Fix performance problems with autovacuum truncation in busy workloads.
In situations where there are over 8MB of empty pages at the end of a table, the truncation work for trailing empty pages takes longer than deadlock_timeout, and there is frequent access to the table by processes other than autovacuum, there was a problem with the autovacuum worker process being canceled by the deadlock checking code. The truncation work done by autovacuum up that point was lost, and the attempt tried again by a later autovacuum worker. The attempts could continue indefinitely without making progress, consuming resources and blocking other processes for up to deadlock_timeout each time. This patch has the autovacuum worker checking whether it is blocking any other thread at 20ms intervals. If such a condition develops, the autovacuum worker will persist the work it has done so far, release its lock on the table, and sleep in 50ms intervals for up to 5 seconds, hoping to be able to re-acquire the lock and try again. If it is unable to get the lock in that time, it moves on and a worker will try to continue later from the point this one left off. While this patch doesn't change the rules about when and what to truncate, it does cause the truncation to occur sooner, with less blocking, and with the consumption of fewer resources when there is contention for the table's lock. The only user-visible change other than improved performance is that the table size during truncation may change incrementally instead of just once. Backpatched to 9.0 from initial master commit at b19e4250 -- before that the differences are too large to be clearly safe. Jan Wieck
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- src/backend/commands/vacuumlazy.c 166 additions, 64 deletionssrc/backend/commands/vacuumlazy.c
- src/backend/storage/lmgr/lmgr.c 18 additions, 0 deletionssrc/backend/storage/lmgr/lmgr.c
- src/backend/storage/lmgr/lock.c 92 additions, 0 deletionssrc/backend/storage/lmgr/lock.c
- src/include/storage/lmgr.h 1 addition, 0 deletionssrc/include/storage/lmgr.h
- src/include/storage/lock.h 2 additions, 0 deletionssrc/include/storage/lock.h
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