Stephen Frost <sfr...@snowman.net> writes:
> I'm looking into an issue that we're seeing on the PG archives server
> with runaway queries that don't seem to ever want to end- and ignore
> signals.
> This is PG11, 11.8-1.pgdg100+1 specifically on Debian/buster and what
> we're seeing is the loop in hlCover() (wparser_def.c:2071 to 2093) is
> lasting an awful long time without any CFI call. It's possible the CFI
> call should actually go elsewhere, but the complete lack of any CFI in
> wparser_def.c or tsvector_op.c seems a bit concerning.
> I'm suspicious there's something else going on here that's causing this
> to take a long time but I don't have any smoking gun as yet.
Hm. I'd vote for a CFI within the recursion in TS_execute(), if there's
not one there yet. Maybe hlFirstIndex needs one too --- if there are
a lot of words in the query, maybe that could be slow? Did you pin the
blame down any more precisely than hlCover?
regards, tom lane
