Re: Postmaster processes running out of control?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Andrew Bartley" <abartley(at)evolvosystems(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Postmaster processes running out of control?
Date: 2002-03-22 06:20:19
Message-ID: 29372.1016778019@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Andrew Bartley" <abartley(at)evolvosystems(dot)com> writes:
> 2002-03-22 16:44:28 [383] DEBUG: SIInsertDataEntry: table is 70% full,
> signaling postmaster
> 2002-03-22 16:44:28 [383] NOTICE: RegisterSharedInvalid: SI buffer
> overflow
> 2002-03-22 16:44:28 [315] NOTICE: InvalidateSharedInvalid: cache state
> reset

AFAIK these notices are completely harmless (and they have in fact been
downgraded to DEBUG level in 7.2). SI buffer overrun is an expected
condition when a large number of system catalog updates are committed
at once.

> In this circumstance it is causing a peer process job that useses
> persistant connections to receive a SIGPIPE signal.

I think the SIGPIPE has little or no direct connection to the SI buffer
overruns --- what *exactly* are you doing and what are you seeing?

regards, tom lane

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