Re: [HACKERS] Something is fairly whacko about shutdown in CVS HEAD

2007-07-01 Thread Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Lane wrote: To resolve this I think we need a clearer definition of the autovac launcher's role in life. I see that it is attached to shared memory; is it supposed to be able to execute transactions or otherwise do anything the bgwriter might have

[HACKERS] Something is fairly whacko about shutdown in CVS HEAD

2007-06-30 Thread Tom Lane
I'm seeing two sets of shutdown messages, and apparently a second shutdown checkpoint being forced, during a normal database stop: 2007-06-30 14:21:00 EDT 9644 LOG: received smart shutdown request 2007-06-30 14:21:00 EDT 9647 LOG: shutting down 2007-06-30 14:21:00 EDT 9647 LOG: checkpoint

Re: [HACKERS] Something is fairly whacko about shutdown in CVS HEAD

2007-06-30 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Tom Lane wrote: I'm seeing two sets of shutdown messages, and apparently a second shutdown checkpoint being forced, during a normal database stop: 2007-06-30 14:21:00 EDT 9644 LOG: received smart shutdown request 2007-06-30 14:21:00 EDT 9647 LOG: shutting down 2007-06-30 14:21:00 EDT 9647

Re: [HACKERS] Something is fairly whacko about shutdown in CVS HEAD

2007-06-30 Thread Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Lane wrote: I'm seeing two sets of shutdown messages, and apparently a second shutdown checkpoint being forced, during a normal database stop: Huh, I can't reproduce it here. It looks to me like this is a race condition induced by the

Re: [HACKERS] Something is fairly whacko about shutdown in CVS HEAD

2007-06-30 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Tom Lane wrote: Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Lane wrote: I'm seeing two sets of shutdown messages, and apparently a second shutdown checkpoint being forced, during a normal database stop: Huh, I can't reproduce it here. It looks to me like this is a race condition