From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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To: | Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
Cc: | Zou Yong <springwell(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: BUG #4522: autovacuum working send SIGUSR1 to the wrong pid |
Date: | 2008-11-12 13:27:20 |
Message-ID: | 20081112132720.GA4535@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Heikki Linnakangas escribió:
> Zou Yong wrote:
>> I was running postgres on a Linux with busybox. The autovacuum feature is
>> turned on. I noticed that the autovacuum worker sent SIGUSR1 to pid 1 which
>> is the init process and caused the system halt.
>
> Hmm. The postgres user shouldn't have permission to halt the system,
> methinks.
Yeah, the reason this hasn't ever been seen is that normally we don't
have permissions to signal init. My guess is that Zou Yang is running a
system without users where everything runs as root. This fits the fact
that it's running busybox: I guess it's an embedded system of some sort.
>> I did some debugging and found that the root cause is the constant
>> AutoVacNumSignals is not defined correctly. It should be (AutoVacRebalance +
>> 1).
>
> Yeah, that's clearly a bug. Fixed, thanks.
My fault. Thanks for the patch.
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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.
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