Wake up for latches in CheckpointWriteDelay().
The checkpointer shouldn't ignore its latch. Other backends may be
waiting for it to drain the request queue. Hopefully real systems don't
have a full queue often, but the condition is reached easily when
shared_buffers is small.
This involves defining a new wait event, which will appear in the
pg_stat_activity view often due to spread checkpoints.
Back-patch only to 14. Even though the problem exists in earlier
branches too, it's hard to hit there. In 14 we stopped using signal
handlers for latches on Linux, *BSD and macOS, which were previously
hiding this problem by interrupting the sleep (though not reliably, as
the signal could arrive before the sleep begins; precisely the problem
latches address).
Reported-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220226213942.nb7uvb2pamyu26dj%40alap3.anarazel.de
Branch
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master
Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/5e6368b42ee6d4b59e085301ca7b0e50f37a897b
Modified Files
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doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml | 4 ++++
src/backend/postmaster/checkpointer.c | 8 +++++++-
src/backend/utils/activity/wait_event.c | 3 +++
src/include/utils/wait_event.h | 1 +
4 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
