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Re: Autovacuum worker doesn't immediately exit on postmaster death

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

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From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
Cc: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Victor Yegorov <vyegorov@gmail.com>, Alexander Kukushkin <cyberdemn@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-03-22T20:07:12Z
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On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 1:48 PM Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:
> Thanks for that.  Attached is just a rebased version with a commit
> message added.  If there aren't any other concerns, I'll commit this in
> the next few days and back-patch it.  When it comes to 12 and older,
> does anyone want to opine about the wait event to use?  I was thinking
> PG_WAIT_TIMEOUT or WAIT_EVENT_PG_SLEEP ...

I'm not sure if we should back-patch this, but I think if you do you
should just add a wait event, rather than using a generic one.

-- 
Robert Haas
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com

Commits

  1. Use a WaitLatch for vacuum/autovacuum sleeping