Re: BUG #18146: Rows reappearing in Tables after Auto-Vacuum Failure in PostgreSQL on Windows - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 11:37 PM Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for thinking about this.  Yeah, the existing _START flag does
> indeed seem to be enough.  I'd been focusing on trying to control the
> redo point selection, but we just need to delay ProcessSyncRequests(),
> and we had a hammer for that already.  Who wants to write the patch?
> It should be trivial, except for the comments.
>
> It's interesting that we'd stun the checkpointer just before we try to
> send it a request in a fixed size queue, but that's OK because we'll
> perform the fsync ourselves if the queue is full.

I don't understand what you mean about stunning the checkpointer, but
here are some patches.

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