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authorAlvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>2015-06-19 12:44:34 -0300
committerAlvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>2015-06-19 12:44:34 -0300
commit41acde2df6d537569f497afaa7316333457e10e8 (patch)
tree3d3ddd81cfddd89fcd9d3d2f90c76be35ff6bfa9
parent711cbaadd078321507fb9bc507ffe727e976bbf7 (diff)
Clamp autovacuum launcher sleep time to 5 minutes
This avoids the problem that it might go to sleep for an unreasonable amount of time in unusual conditions like the server clock moving backwards an unreasonable amount of time. (Simply moving the server clock forward again doesn't solve the problem unless you wake up the autovacuum launcher manually, say by sending it SIGHUP). Per trouble report from Prakash Itnal in https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAHC5u79-UqbapAABH2t4Rh2eYdyge0Zid-X=Xz-ZWZCBK42S0Q@mail.gmail.com Analyzed independently by Haribabu Kommi and Tom Lane.
-rw-r--r--src/backend/postmaster/autovacuum.c10
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/postmaster/autovacuum.c b/src/backend/postmaster/autovacuum.c
index 1aa433071a0..9cf11910583 100644
--- a/src/backend/postmaster/autovacuum.c
+++ b/src/backend/postmaster/autovacuum.c
@@ -123,6 +123,7 @@ int Log_autovacuum_min_duration = -1;
/* the minimum allowed time between two awakenings of the launcher */
#define MIN_AUTOVAC_SLEEPTIME 100.0 /* milliseconds */
+#define MAX_AUTOVAC_SLEEPTIME 300 /* seconds */
/* Flags to tell if we are in an autovacuum process */
static bool am_autovacuum_launcher = false;
@@ -849,6 +850,15 @@ launcher_determine_sleep(bool canlaunch, bool recursing, struct timeval * nap)
nap->tv_sec = 0;
nap->tv_usec = MIN_AUTOVAC_SLEEPTIME * 1000;
}
+
+ /*
+ * If the sleep time is too large, clamp it to an arbitrary maximum (plus
+ * any fractional seconds, for simplicity). This avoids an essentially
+ * infinite sleep in strange cases like the system clock going backwards a
+ * few years.
+ */
+ if (nap->tv_sec > MAX_AUTOVAC_SLEEPTIME)
+ nap->tv_sec = MAX_AUTOVAC_SLEEPTIME;
}
/*