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Re: Fix pg_log_backend_memory_contexts() 's delay

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

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From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>, bt21tanigaway <bt21tanigaway@oss.nttdata.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-10-05T16:16:06Z
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On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 8:28 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> It's not real clear to me why we need to care about this in those
> processes' idle loops.  Their memory consumption is unlikely to be
> very interesting in that state, nor could it change before they
> wake up.

Perhaps that's so, but it doesn't seem like a good reason not to make
them more responsive.

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

Commits

  1. Make autovacuum launcher more responsive to pg_log_backend_memory_contexts().