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-rw-r--r--src/backend/postmaster/checkpointer.c9
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/postmaster/checkpointer.c b/src/backend/postmaster/checkpointer.c
index 8490148a47d..e84e8663e96 100644
--- a/src/backend/postmaster/checkpointer.c
+++ b/src/backend/postmaster/checkpointer.c
@@ -953,11 +953,14 @@ CheckpointerShmemSize(void)
Size size;
/*
- * Currently, the size of the requests[] array is arbitrarily set equal to
- * NBuffers. This may prove too large or small ...
+ * The size of the requests[] array is arbitrarily set equal to NBuffers.
+ * But there is a cap of MAX_CHECKPOINT_REQUESTS to prevent accumulating
+ * too many checkpoint requests in the ring buffer.
*/
size = offsetof(CheckpointerShmemStruct, requests);
- size = add_size(size, mul_size(NBuffers, sizeof(CheckpointerRequest)));
+ size = add_size(size, mul_size(Min(NBuffers,
+ MAX_CHECKPOINT_REQUESTS),
+ sizeof(CheckpointerRequest)));
return size;
}