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Vectle found the following relevant skills: - Additive Postgres migration release gate - agent added a column with a default to a 500M-row table and postgres is rewriting the whole table while the app is live
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Public search query: postgres
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Response playbook for an ALTER TABLE that ran 6 hours blocking deploys because no statement_timeout was set: stopping it safely, setting timeouts, and using online schema-change tools instead. Use when a DDL statement runs unbounded and blocks everything behind it. Not for slow DML or stuck queries.
How to fix gh-ost's "FATAL cannot acquire lock on table" during an online schema migration: finding the blocking workload, retrying the cutover in a quiet window, and tuning the lock settings. Use when gh-ost fails at the cutover step because it cannot get the brief table lock it needs. Not for failures during the row…
Separates connection-acquisition latency from query execution time in database latency analysis. Use when the database is blamed but queries are fast. Key trigger: slow app-measured DB time with fast query plans.
Finds slow Elasticsearch queries via the search slowlog after enabling thresholds. Use when slowlog threshold warnings appear. Key trigger: the slowlog threshold exceeded message.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - azure ad automatic provisioning quarantine threshold exceeded error - mysql error: Lock wait timeout exceeded - try restarting transaction - how to find the blocker
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Public search query: elasticsearch error: slowlog threshold exceeded - how to find the sl
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Diagnoses Postgres 'canceling autovacuum task' and checks whether autovacuum is falling behind via pg_stat_user_tables. Use when autovacuum workers get canceled or bloat grows. Key trigger: the exact canceling-autovacuum message.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - CloudNativePG: a missing shared preload library can prevent PostgreSQL startup - postgres error: canceling statement due to statement timeout - how to find the slow query
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Public search query: postgres error: pg_stat_statements must be loaded via shared_preload_libra
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Fixes Postgres 'canceling statement due to statement timeout' by finding the killed query in the logs and EXPLAINing it. Use when statements get canceled by statement_timeout. Key trigger: the exact canceling-statement error text.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - Postgres MCP: canceling statement due to statement timeout (30s default) - Tembo Postgres monitoring needs pg_stat_statements or it silently does nothing
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Public search query: postgres error: canceling statement due to statement timeout - how t
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Fixes TimescaleDB queries scanning every chunk instead of pruning: shows how to spot the missing exclusion in EXPLAIN, then restore it by comparing the raw time column against literals, enabling constraint_exclusion, avoiding generic plans, and matching timestamp types. Use when a time-filtered query is slow and EXPLA…
Diagnoses YugabyteDB queries where YSQL reports far more latency than the DocDB storage layer: shows how to confirm the gap with EXPLAIN ANALYZE DIST, count the storage round trips, check tablet-leader placement, and cut the overhead with follower reads, colocation, or better pushdown. Use when query time dwarfs stora…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - node disk pressure from image layers: how to clean - Tokens expire too fast or sessions too long: token lifetime vs session layers
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Public search query: yugabytedb 'query layer' latency 5x the storage layer: how to confirm
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Reads a Postgres deadlock DETAIL line to find the two colliding queries. Use when the log shows 'deadlock detected' with waiter and blocker processes. Shows how to map both PIDs to their SQL and fix the lock ordering. Key trigger: DETAIL names a waiter process blocked by another process.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - deadlock detected" Postgres: what causes it - AsyncPostgresSaver 2.0.23 fails to read channel values: NoneType not a mapping …
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Public search query: how to read a postgres deadlock 'DETAIL: Process 12345 waits for ShareLoc
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Unblocks PlanetScale branch schema deploys stuck behind a long-running query. Use when a deploy sits in blocked or waiting state. Shows how to find the query holding the metadata lock via the process list, kill it safely, and retry. Key trigger: the deploy never starts while a long query runs on the target table.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - how to find the slowest queries in Postgres - Atlas: find and kill COLLSCAN queries with explain - [Atlas: diagnose slow quer…
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Public search query: elasticsearch error: slowlog threshold exceeded - how to find the slow queries
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Fixes Supabase pgbouncer pooler timeouts on burst traffic. Use when port-6543 connections time out under load from serverless or bursty clients. Covers confirming pooler use, clearing idle-in-transaction hogs, sizing the pool, and client retries. Key trigger: pooler checkouts time out while direct connections still wo…