Received: from malur.postgresql.org ([217.196.149.56]) by arkaria.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1idH9W-00015E-6l for pgsql-performance@arkaria.postgresql.org; Fri, 06 Dec 2019 17:12:26 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=malur.postgresql.org) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1idH9U-0001bX-Qn for pgsql-performance@arkaria.postgresql.org; Fri, 06 Dec 2019 17:12:24 +0000 Received: from makus.postgresql.org ([2001:4800:3e1:1::229]) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1idH9U-0001Zi-ES for pgsql-performance@lists.postgresql.org; Fri, 06 Dec 2019 17:12:24 +0000 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us ([66.207.139.130]) by makus.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1idH9R-00006W-V4 for pgsql-performance@postgresql.org; Fri, 06 Dec 2019 17:12:23 +0000 Received: from sss1.sss.pgh.pa.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id xB6HCJnF016068; Fri, 6 Dec 2019 12:12:19 -0500 From: Tom Lane To: Mike Schanne cc: "'pgsql-performance@postgresql.org'" Subject: Re: autovacuum locking question In-reply-to: <1f62dd52283e4aa3b5d730d546cc4c02@USEPRDEX1.corp.kns.com> References: <0871fcf35ceb4caa8a2204ca9c38e330@USEPRDEX1.corp.kns.com> <26221.1575589746@sss.pgh.pa.us> <1f62dd52283e4aa3b5d730d546cc4c02@USEPRDEX1.corp.kns.com> Comments: In-reply-to Mike Schanne message dated "Fri, 06 Dec 2019 15:46:15 +0000" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <16066.1575652339.1@sss.pgh.pa.us> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2019 12:12:19 -0500 Message-ID: <16067.1575652339@sss.pgh.pa.us> List-Id: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: Precedence: bulk Mike Schanne writes: > Is this what you are referring to? > - Prevent VACUUM from trying to freeze an old multixact ID involving a s= till-running transaction (Nathan Bossart, Jeremy Schneider) > This case would lead to VACUUM failing until the old transaction termina= tes. > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/release/9.6.16/ Hmmm ... after digging through the commit log, it seems the improvements I was thinking of were all pre-9.6. The only post-9.6 vacuum truncation performance fix I can find is https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=3Dpostgresql.git&a=3Dcommitdiff&h=3D7= e26e02ee which came in in v10. regards, tom lane