Re: checkpointer code behaving strangely on postmaster -T

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> writes:
> I noticed while doing some tests that the checkpointer process does not
> recover very nicely after a backend crashes under postmaster -T (after
> all processes have been kill -CONTd, of course, and postmaster told to
> shutdown via Ctrl-C on its console). For some reason it seems to get
> stuck on a loop doing sleep(0.5s) In other case I caught it trying to
> do a checkpoint, but it was progressing a single page each time and then
> sleeping. In that condition, the checkpoint took a very long time to
> finish.

Is this still a problem as of HEAD? I think I've fixed some issues in
the checkpointer's outer loop logic, but not sure if what you saw is
still there.

regards, tom lane