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Re: Refactoring postmaster's code to cleanup after child exit

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

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From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Date: 2024-10-07T14:19:53Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Hi,

On 2024-10-05 20:51:50 +0100, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker wrote:
> Socket version 2.028 (included in Perl 5.32) provides pack_sockaddr_un()
> on Windows, so that can be fixed by bumping the Perl version in
> https://github.com/anarazel/pg-vm-images/blob/main/packer/windows.pkr.hcl
> to something more modern (such as 5.40.0.1), and only skipping the test
> if on Windows if Socket is too old.
> 
> The decision to use 5.26 seems to come from the initial creation of the
> CI images in 2021 (when 5.34 was current), with the comment «newer
> versions don't currently work correctly for plperl».  That claim is
> worth revisiting, and fixing if it's still the case.

I think we fixed the issues that were known at the time. I think I tried
upgrading to something newer at some point and there were some weird, but
fixable, encoding issues. Unfortunately I don't have the bandwidth to tackle
this rn.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

Commits

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  1. Fix test name and username used in failed connection attempts

  2. tests: Don't fail due to high default timeout in postmaster/003_start_stop

  3. tests: Fix race condition in postmaster/002_connection_limits

  4. Pass MyPMChildSlot as an explicit argument to child process

  5. Assign a child slot to every postmaster child process

  6. Kill dead-end children when there's nothing else left

  7. Replace postmaster.c's own backend type codes with BackendType

  8. Use an shmem_exit callback to remove backend from PMChildFlags on exit

  9. Add test for dead-end backends

  10. Add test for connection limits

  11. Fix garbled process name on backend crash

  12. Consolidate postmaster code to launch background processes

  13. Fix comment on processes being kept over a restart

  14. Refactor code to handle death of a backend or bgworker in postmaster

  15. Make BackgroundWorkerList doubly-linked

  16. Minor refactoring of assign_backendlist_entry()

  17. Fix outdated comment; all running bgworkers are in BackendList

  18. Allow building with MSVC and Strawberry perl

  19. Fix rare failure in LDAP tests.

  20. Allow notifications to bgworkers without database connections.