Re: Help with finding checkpoint code

Thanks, got it.

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J. R. Nield wrote:
> It is called by a special child process of the postmaster after a
> signal. Search for PMSIGNAL_DO_CHECKPOINT in xlog.c and in postmaster.c.
> The checkpoint process gets started out of sigusr1_handler().
>
>
> On Sat, 2002-08-31 at 23:27, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > I am trying to find when WAL log files are rotated. The message is:
> >
> > 2002-02-11 21:18:13 DEBUG: recycled transaction log file 0000000000000005
> >
> > and it is printed in MoveOfflineLogs(), and MoveOfflineLogs() is only
> > called by CreateCheckPoint(), but I can't see where CreateCheckPoint()
> > is called in normal operation. I see it called by CHECKPOINT, and on
> > startup and shutdown, and from bootstrap, but where is it called during
> > normal backend operation.
> >
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