Re: Apparent bug in WAL summarizer process (hung state)

On Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 02:56:00PM -0300, Israel Barth Rubio wrote:
> I've been playing a bit with the incremental backup feature which might
> come as
> part of the 17 release, and I think I hit a possible bug in the WAL
> summarizer
> process.

Thanks for testing new features and for this report!

> FWIW, once I restart Postgres the WAL summarizer process gets back to normal
> functioning. It seems to me there is some race condition between when a WAL
> file
> is removed and when `summarize_wal` is re-enabled, causing the process to
> keep
> looking for a WAL file that is the past.

I am adding an open item to track this issue, to make sure that this
is looked at.
--
Michael