Improve comment about dropped entries in pgstat.c
pgstat_write_statsfile() discards any entries marked as dropped from
being written to the stats file at shutdown, and also included an
assertion based on the same condition.
The intention of the assertion is to track that no pgstats entries
should be left around as terminating backends should drop any entries
they still hold references on before the stats file is written by the
checkpointer, and it not worth taking down the server in this case if
there is a bug making that possible.
Let's improve the comment of this area to document clearly what's
intended.
Based on a discussion with Bertrand Drouvot and Anton A. Melnikov.
Author: Bertrand Drouvot
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a13e8cdf-b97a-4ecb-8f42-aaa367974e29@postgrespro.ru
Backpatch-through: 15
Branch
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master
Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/001a537b83ec6e2ab8fa8af44458b0502c94dd5e
Modified Files
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src/backend/utils/activity/pgstat.c | 10 +++++++++-
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
