I run long DBT-2 with 8.3beta2 and saw checkpoint spikes periodically.
The progress against WAL segments consumption *jumped up* in such cases.
It seems to be a miscalculation in IsCheckpointOnSchedule().
xrecoff is uint32, therefore the difference of two xrecoffs could
be between -4G and +4G. We should not cast it to int32, that domain
is [-2G, +2G).
Here is a patch to fix it, casting xrecoff to double directly.
Index: src/backend/postmaster/bgwriter.c
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--- src/backend/postmaster/bgwriter.c (HEAD)
+++ src/backend/postmaster/bgwriter.c (working copy)
@@ -718,7 +718,7 @@
recptr = GetInsertRecPtr();
elapsed_xlogs =
(((double) (int32) (recptr.xlogid - ckpt_start_recptr.xlogid)) * XLogSegsPerFile +
- ((double) (int32) (recptr.xrecoff - ckpt_start_recptr.xrecoff)) / XLogSegSize) /
+ ((double) recptr.xrecoff - (double) ckpt_start_recptr.xrecoff) / XLogSegSize) /
CheckPointSegments;
if (progress < elapsed_xlogs)
Regards,
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ITAGAKI Takahiro
NTT Open Source Software Center
