Wake up autovacuum launcher from postmaster when a worker exits
Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>
Author:
Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>
Date: 2026-01-15T16:02:25Z
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19 (unreleased)
Wake up autovacuum launcher from postmaster when a worker exits When an autovacuum worker exits, the launcher needs to be notified with SIGUSR2, so that it can rebalance and possibly launch a new worker. The launcher must be notified only after the worker has finished ProcKill(), so that the worker slot is available for a new worker. Before this commit, the autovacuum worker was responsible for that, which required a slightly complicated dance to pass the launcher's PID from FreeWorkerInfo() to ProcKill() in a global variable. Simplify that by moving the responsibility of the signaling to the postmaster. The postmaster was already doing it when it failed to fork a worker process, so it seems logical to make it responsible for notifying the launcher on worker exit too. That's also how the notification on background worker exit is done. Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: li carol <carol.li2025@outlook.com> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/a5e27d25-c7e7-45d5-9bac-a17c8f462def@iki.fi
Files
| Path | Change | +/− |
|---|---|---|
| src/backend/postmaster/autovacuum.c | modified | +0 −22 |
| src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c | modified | +8 −0 |
| src/backend/storage/lmgr/proc.c | modified | +0 −4 |
| src/include/postmaster/autovacuum.h | modified | +0 −3 |
Discussion
- Wake up autovacuum launcher from postmaster when a worker exits 5 messages · 2026-01-08 → 2026-01-15