Re: allow changing autovacuum_max_workers without restarting

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org, "Imseih (AWS), Sami" <simseih@amazon.com>, Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2025-01-07T19:22:42Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com> writes:
> Here's a new version of the patch with some small cosmetic changes
> (including more commentary about the formula) and the constant changed to
> 6.  I'll go commit this shortly.

This one WFM.  Thanks!

			regards, tom lane



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  1. Give up on running with NetBSD/OpenBSD's default semaphore settings.

  2. initdb: Do not report default autovacuum_worker_slots.

  3. Lower default value of autovacuum_worker_slots in initdb as needed.

  4. Allow changing autovacuum_max_workers without restarting.

  5. Reserve a PGPROC slot and semaphore for the slotsync worker process.

  6. Make archiver process an auxiliary process.

  7. Correct the formulas for System V IPC parameters SEMMNI and SEMMNS in docs.