Re: O(n) tasks cause lengthy startups and checkpoints - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Nathan Bossart
Subject Re: O(n) tasks cause lengthy startups and checkpoints
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Msg-id 20220218205111.GA3447220@nathanxps13
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In response to Re: O(n) tasks cause lengthy startups and checkpoints  (Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>)
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Re: O(n) tasks cause lengthy startups and checkpoints
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> On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 03:12:47PM -0800, Andres Freund wrote:
>>> > The improvements around deleting temporary files and serialized snapshots
>>> > afaict don't require a dedicated process - they're only relevant during
>>> > startup. We could use the approach of renaming the directory out of the way as
>>> > done in this patchset but perform the cleanup in the startup process after
>>> > we're up.

BTW I know you don't like the dedicated process approach, but one
improvement to that approach could be to shut down the custodian process
when it has nothing to do.

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