Hi,
On 2022-07-14 10:51:39 -0600, David Johansen wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 2:05 PM David Johansen <davejohansen@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 1:31 PM Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 4:38 PM David Johansen <davejohansen@gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> We're running into an issue where the database can't be connected to. It
> >>> appears that the auto-vacuum is timing out and then that prevents new
> >>> connections from happening. This assumption is based on these logs showing
> >>> up in the logs:
> >>> WARNING: worker took too long to start; canceled
> >>> The log appears about every 5 minutes and eventually nothing can connect
> >>> to it and it has to be rebooted.
> >>>
> >>
> >> As Julien suggested, this sounds like another victim, not the cause. Is
> >> there anything else in the log files?
> >>
> >
> > That's the only thing in the logs for the 12-24 hours before the database
> > becomes inaccessible.
> >
>
> To follow up on this, this was the symptom and not the cause. The
> auto-vacuum was failing to start because of a bug and not the cause of the
> problem.
What bug?
Greetings,
Andres Freund