On Tue, Mar 10, 2026 at 10:42 AM Chao Li <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > On Mar 9, 2026, at 22:12, Fujii Masao <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > On Mon, Mar 9, 2026 at 6:03 PM Hüseyin Demir <[email protected]> wrote:
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> >> Hi Fujii,
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> >> Thanks for the patch. The rate-limiting approach makes sense to me. A 
> >> couple of thoughts:
> >>
> >> 1) I think Chao Li's suggestion of using max(10s, deadlock_timeout) as the 
> >> rate limit interval is worth adopting. If someone has set deadlock_timeout 
> >> to, say, 30s or 60s, they've already signaled they don't need frequent 
> >> lock-wait feedback. Logging every 10s after a 60s deadlock_timeout feels 
> >> inconsistent with that intent.
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> > Or perhaps they expect the log message to be emitted only once,
> > just after deadlock_timeout, similar to the current behavior when
> > client_connection_check_interval is not set, I guess.
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> > I'm now starting thinking it might be better to preserve the existing
> > behavior (emitting the message once per wait) regardless of whether
> > client_connection_check_interval is set, and implement that first.
> >
> > If there is a need to emit the message periodically, we could add that
> > as a separate feature later so that it works independently of
> > the client_connection_check_interval setting.
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> > Thought?
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> Yeah, IMHO, preserving the existing behavior is preferable. Logically, 
> client_connection_check_interval and log_lock_waitsbelong to two different 
> departments. Even though they cross paths at the implementation level today, 
> having the behavior of log_lock_waits change just because 
> client_connection_check_interval is adjusted seems surprising.

So, attached is a patch that ensures the "still waiting on lock" message is
reported at most once during a lock wait, even if the wait is interrupted.

Regards,

-- 
Fujii Masao

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