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From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Some shared memory chunks are allocated even if related processes won't start
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Msg-id 202403040809.ovvbwsmerzer@alvherre.pgsql
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In response to Some shared memory chunks are allocated even if related processes won't start  ("Hayato Kuroda (Fujitsu)" <kuroda.hayato@fujitsu.com>)
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On 2024-Mar-04, Hayato Kuroda (Fujitsu) wrote:

> Dear hackers,
> 
> While reading codes, I found that ApplyLauncherShmemInit() and
> AutoVacuumShmemInit() are always called even if they would not be
> launched.

Note that there are situations where the autovacuum launcher is started
even though autovacuum is nominally turned off, and I suspect your
proposal would break that.  IIRC this occurs when the Xid or multixact
counters cross the max_freeze_age threshold.

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Álvaro Herrera         PostgreSQL Developer  —  https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/
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