Re: BUG #14830: Missed NOTIFications, PostgreSQL 9.1.24

Tom Lane wrote:
> Marko Tiikkaja <marko@joh.to> writes:
> > So I managed to accidentally kill and/or restart both servers while trying
> > to install debug symbols, but I'm doing a new run now and I noticed
> > something interesting: the listening backend's RecentXmin doesn't seem to
> > ever go forward.  By my reading of this code, that would mean trouble for
> > this piece of code in TransactionIdIsInProgress:
> 
> >   if (TransactionIdPrecedes(xid, RecentXmin))
> >       return false;
> 
> Hmm ... I suppose it's possible that that happens if the listening
> backend isn't executing any SQL commands but is just sitting.
> While that might describe your test harness, does it describe any
> real-world application?

I think it's not totally unreasonable to have processes sitting idle for
long periods of time.  One example: a pooler configured to have more
connections that are actually needed most of the time (I'm fairly sure
I've seen this).  Would they not recompute RecentXmin if they did a
sinval reset?  Also, a listener daemon for which notifications are very
infrequent.

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