From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>
To: pgsql-committers@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: pgsql: Wake up autovacuum launcher from postmaster when a worker exits
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:02:42 +0000
Message-ID: <E1vgPo1-000dVH-1x@gemulon.postgresql.org> (raw)
Wake up autovacuum launcher from postmaster when a worker exits
When an autovacuum worker exits, the launcher needs to be notified
with SIGUSR2, so that it can rebalance and possibly launch a new
worker. The launcher must be notified only after the worker has
finished ProcKill(), so that the worker slot is available for a new
worker. Before this commit, the autovacuum worker was responsible for
that, which required a slightly complicated dance to pass the
launcher's PID from FreeWorkerInfo() to ProcKill() in a global
variable.
Simplify that by moving the responsibility of the signaling to the
postmaster. The postmaster was already doing it when it failed to fork
a worker process, so it seems logical to make it responsible for
notifying the launcher on worker exit too. That's also how the
notification on background worker exit is done.
Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: li carol <carol.li2025@outlook.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/a5e27d25-c7e7-45d5-9bac-a17c8f462def@iki.fi
Branch
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master
Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/d9c3c943653740d1df44385c3cd658ed67bb4fb2
Modified Files
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src/backend/postmaster/autovacuum.c | 22 ----------------------
src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c | 8 ++++++++
src/backend/storage/lmgr/proc.c | 4 ----
src/include/postmaster/autovacuum.h | 3 ---
4 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
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