Re: AutoVacuum starvation from sinval messages
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2012-11-08T22:24:52Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
I wrote: > Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com> writes: >> When the poll() gets EINTR by SIGUSR1 for the invalidation, it >> restarts at the full timeout (60 seconds in this case) with no >> accounting for the time already waited. > Hmm. That seems like a problem, all right, but I don't believe the > claim that it applies only to the poll() code path. On many platforms > the select() path would have the same issue. BTW, doesn't win32_latch.c have the identical problem? I don't see it updating the timeout after a signal, either. regards, tom lane