pgsql: Refresh autovacuum costs while waiting for parallel workers.

From: Masahiko Sawada <msawada(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: pgsql-committers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: Refresh autovacuum costs while waiting for parallel workers.
Date: 2026-10-01 13:20:33
Message-ID: E1xCGi9-000000020YC-0oN7@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Refresh autovacuum costs while waiting for parallel workers.

Commit 1ff3180ca01 made a parallel autovacuum leader propagate changes
to the cost-based delay parameters to its workers only from
vacuum_delay_point(), which it no longer reaches once it is waiting in
WaitForParallelWorkersToFinish(). While waiting, the leader neither
processed a config reload nor noticed a change in the number of
autovacuum workers sharing the cost limit, so its workers kept running
with stale parameters until they finished.

Fix by refreshing and propagating the parameters on every wakeup of
that wait loop, and by setting the latches of the balanced autovacuum
workers when their count changes so that a waiting leader wakes up.

A regression test will be added in a separate commit.

Backpatch to v19, where parallel autovacuum was introduced.

Reported-by: Nikolay Samokhvalov <nik(at)postgres(dot)ai>
Author: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath(dot)rupireddyforpostgres(at)gmail(dot)com>
Reviewed-by: Manu <manuelreyesbravo(at)gmail(dot)com>
Reviewed-by: Zsolt Parragi <zsolt(dot)parragi(at)percona(dot)com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>
Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAM527d-GL=Jp2EJXBSnVBGPK-4XEZwWof5Cv8P0hghS_og6oAg@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 19

Branch
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master

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/42e96cf2fe095c822f76bc94669ea875cb1e3351

Modified Files
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src/backend/access/transam/parallel.c | 11 +++++++++++
src/backend/commands/vacuumparallel.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
src/backend/postmaster/autovacuum.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
src/include/commands/vacuum.h | 1 +
4 files changed, 72 insertions(+)

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