Re: checkpointer code behaving strangely on postmaster -T

On 10 May 2012 16:14, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
>> Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of jue may 10 02:27:32 -0400 2012:
>>> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> writes:
>> I noticed while doing some tests that the checkpointer process does not
>> recover very nicely after a backend crashes under postmaster -T
>
>> It seems to me that the bug is in the postmaster state machine rather
>> than checkpointer itself.  After a few false starts, this seems to fix
>> it:
>
>> --- a/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c
>> +++ b/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c
>> @@ -2136,6 +2136,8 @@ pmdie(SIGNAL_ARGS)
>>                     signal_child(WalWriterPID, SIGTERM);
>>                 if (BgWriterPID != 0)
>>                     signal_child(BgWriterPID, SIGTERM);
>> +               if (FatalError && CheckpointerPID != 0)
>> +                   signal_child(CheckpointerPID, SIGUSR2);
>
> Surely we do not want the checkpointer doing a shutdown checkpoint here.
> If we need it to die immediately, SIGQUIT is the way.  If we want a
> shutdown checkpoint, that has to wait till after everything else is
> known dead.  So while I agree this may be a state machine bug, that
> doesn't look like a good fix.

Is this now fixed? You've made a few changes so I'm confused. Thanks.

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