Re: BUG #18616: Long-running hash index build can not be interrupted - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com> writes:
> 13.09.2024 17:51, Pavel Borisov wrote:
>> I was unable to reproduce it on my machine with these settings. Tried statement timeouts 30-120s. Index build
appears 
>> to be in interruptible phase on my system.

> Yes, the patch works for me. The query is interrupted as expected.
> But I wonder, why don't you the see same?

I see the same result as Alexander: the query fails to time out
after the expected 90 seconds, and it's looping in _h_indexbuild.

Looking at hashbuild, the effective sort_threshold depends on
NBuffers, so maybe if you have that set to a high enough value
it fails to go into the sort path?  If I use

SET maintenance_work_mem = '128MB';

instead of the suggested 1GB, I don't see the problem.

            regards, tom lane