Re: BUG #7670: BUG #7545: Unresponsive server with error log reporting: "poll() failed: Invalid argument"

2012/11/18 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

> Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > On 2012-11-18 12:44:55 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> I'm inclined to propose limiting both of these to the equivalent of 15
> >> days.  Alternatively we could try to rejigger things to prevent asking
> >> WaitLatch to wait for more than 2^31 msec, but it's not real clear to
> >> me that it's worth the trouble.
>
> > In general I have no problem imposing lower limits, but it seems to be a
> > ugly to get errors for an invalid configuration file after a minor
> > version upgrade. While the wal_sender_timeout isn't really likely to be
> > that high I don't think the log_rotation_age one is unlikely to be set
> > to something in the month range, thats not an unreasonable value.
>
> Well, we have two reports of people trying such values (assuming that
> #7545 actually is the same thing), and it didn't work for either of
> them.  I don't think it's a problem to restrict the value to something
> that will work rather than fail.
>
> If you're worried that there's somebody out there using 20 or 21 days
> as log_rotation_age, I guess we could limit to INT_MAX/1000 seconds or
> something just less than that.
>

Some experiments are necessary on my side ?

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