Hello. While I looked around shutdown sequence, pmdie() uses "BACKEND_TYPE_AUTOVAC | BACKEND_TYPE_BGWORKER" for sending signal and PostmasterStateMachine counts them using BACKEND_TYPE_WORKER. It is the only usage of the combined one. It seems to me just a leftover of da07a1e856.
regards. -- Kyotaro Horiguchi NTT Open Source Software Center
diff --git a/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c b/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c index eb9e0221f8..a071c3de87 100644 --- a/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c +++ b/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c @@ -2740,8 +2740,8 @@ pmdie(SIGNAL_ARGS) { /* autovac workers are told to shut down immediately */ /* and bgworkers too; does this need tweaking? */ - SignalSomeChildren(SIGTERM, - BACKEND_TYPE_AUTOVAC | BACKEND_TYPE_BGWORKER); + SignalSomeChildren(SIGTERM, BACKEND_TYPE_WORKER); + /* and the autovac launcher too */ if (AutoVacPID != 0) signal_child(AutoVacPID, SIGTERM); @@ -2821,8 +2821,7 @@ pmdie(SIGNAL_ARGS) (errmsg("aborting any active transactions"))); /* shut down all backends and workers */ SignalSomeChildren(SIGTERM, - BACKEND_TYPE_NORMAL | BACKEND_TYPE_AUTOVAC | - BACKEND_TYPE_BGWORKER); + BACKEND_TYPE_NORMAL | BACKEND_TYPE_WORKER); /* and the autovac launcher too */ if (AutoVacPID != 0) signal_child(AutoVacPID, SIGTERM);