On Fri, 25 Dec 2020 at 06:07, Tom Lane wrote:
> I wrote:
> > Bharath Rupireddy writes:
> >> 4) IIUC, in the patch we mark slot->terminate = true only for
> >> BGW_NEVER_RESTART kind bg workers, what happens if a bg worker has
> >> bgw_restart_time seconds and don't we hit the hanging issue(that
I wrote:
> Bharath Rupireddy writes:
>> 4) IIUC, in the patch we mark slot->terminate = true only for
>> BGW_NEVER_RESTART kind bg workers, what happens if a bg worker has
>> bgw_restart_time seconds and don't we hit the hanging issue(that we
>> are trying to solve here) for those bg workers?
> T
Bharath Rupireddy writes:
> On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 3:10 AM Tom Lane wrote:
>> Here's an attempt at closing the race condition discussed in [1]
>> (and in some earlier threads, though I'm too lazy to find them).
> 2) What if postmaster enters pmState >= PM_STOP_BACKENDS state after
> it calls Ba
On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 3:10 AM Tom Lane wrote:
> Here's an attempt at closing the race condition discussed in [1]
> (and in some earlier threads, though I'm too lazy to find them).
>
> The core problem is that the bgworker management APIs were designed
> without any thought for exception conditio
On Wed, 23 Dec 2020 at 05:40, Tom Lane wrote:
> Here's an attempt at closing the race condition discussed in [1]
> (and in some earlier threads, though I'm too lazy to find them).
>
> The core problem is that the bgworker management APIs were designed
> without any thought for exception condition
