Re: Unduly short fuse in RequestCheckpoint

2019-03-18 Thread Robert Haas
On Sun, Mar 17, 2019 at 3:41 PM Tom Lane wrote: > So I think we should just blow off that > hypothetical possibility and do it like this. Makes sense to me. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

Re: Unduly short fuse in RequestCheckpoint

2019-03-17 Thread Tom Lane
I wrote: > The cause of this error is that RequestCheckpoint will give up and fail > after just 2 seconds, which evidently is not long enough on slow or > heavily loaded machines. Since there isn't any good reason why the > checkpointer wouldn't be running, I'm inclined to swing a large hammer > a

Unduly short fuse in RequestCheckpoint

2019-03-16 Thread Tom Lane
I noticed an odd buildfarm failure today: https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=sungazer&dt=2019-03-16%2012%3A12%3A20 of which the key bit seems to be 2019-03-16 15:20:43.835 UTC [10879304] 003_promote.pl LOG: received replication command: BASE_BACKUP LABEL 'pg_basebackup bas