pgsql: Fix checkpoint signalling

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
To: pgsql-committers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: Fix checkpoint signalling
Date: 2020-04-29 22:47:32
Message-ID: E1jTvUK-0004oQ-80@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Fix checkpoint signalling

Checkpointer uses its MyLatch to wake up when a checkpoint request is
received. But before commit c6550776394e the latch was not used for
anything else, so the code could just go to sleep after each loop
without rechecking the sleeping condition. That commit added a separate
ResetLatch in its code path[1], which can cause a checkpoint to go
unnoticed for potentially a long time.

Fix by skipping sleep if any checkpoint flags are set. Also add a test
to verify this; authored by Kyotaro Horiguchi.

[1] CreateCheckPoint -> InvalidateObsoleteReplicationSlots ->
ConditionVariableTimeSleep

Report and diagnosis by Kyotaro Horiguchi.
Co-authored-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota(dot)ntt(at)gmail(dot)com>
Co-authored-by: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200408.141956.891237856186513376.horikyota.ntt@gmail.com

Branch
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master

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/1816a1c6ffe46782eee9a16a974b4aa3f4b8457b

Modified Files
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src/backend/postmaster/checkpointer.c | 7 +++++
src/test/recovery/t/019_replslot_limit.pl | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
2 files changed, 49 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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