When the materialized view was refreshing concurrently, I saw the pg_lock like this: there was no response within 30 seconds when the api calls this query, and we got api time out.
sasanalytics=> select relation::regclass, * from pg_locks where not granted; relation | locktype | database | relation | page | tuple | virtualxid | transactionid | classid | objid | objsubid | virtualtransaction | pid | mode | granted | fastpath ---------------------------------------------------+----------+----------+------------+------+-------+------------+---------------+---------+-------+----------+--------------------+-------+---------------+---------+---------- mvw_cbsd_status_grants_lessinfo_active_softmarker | relation | 16401 | 1886512426 | | | | | | | | 236/858 | 17332 | ExclusiveLock | f | f (1 row) When the materialized view was refreshing normally( without concurrently), I saw the following pg_locks: there was no response within 30 seconds when the api calls this query, and we got api time out. sasanalytics=> select relation::regclass, * from pg_locks where not granted; relation | locktype | database | relation | page | tuple | virtualxid | transactionid | classid | objid | objsubid | virtualtransaction | pid | mode | granted | fastpath ---------------------------------------------------+----------+----------+------------+------+-------+------------+---------------+---------+-------+----------+--------------------+-------+---------------------+---------+---------- mvw_cbsd_status_grants_lessinfo_active_softmarker | relation | 16401 | 1886512426 | | | | | | | | 245/1163 | 15932 | AccessExclusiveLock | f | f (1 row) From: Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> Date: Thursday, August 24, 2023 at 3:02 PM To: Hellen Jiang <hji...@federatedwireless.com> Cc: pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org <pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org> Subject: Re: Materialized view refreshing problem Hellen Jiang <hji...@federatedwireless.com> writes: > But from time and time, we found that it took forever to refresh materialized > view( normally or concurrently), and there is no response to query from this > materialized view. That sounds like a locking problem. Have you looked into pg_locks while this is happening, to see what may be waiting on what? regards, tom lane