Re: client_connection_check_interval default value

On Wed, 2026-02-18 at 14:30 +0900, Fujii Masao wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 6, 2026 at 9:01 AM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> > > The issue is that backends blocked in ProcSleep() are woken up every
> > > client_connection_check_interval and may emit a "still waiting" message
> > > each time if log_lock_waits is enabled. To mitigate this, just one idea is
> > > to add a flag to track whether the "still waiting" message has already been
> > > emitted during a call to ProcSleep(), and suppress further messages
> > > once it has been logged.
> >
> > Independently of what's the default, it seems like it'd be valuable to
> > make that interaction better.  I think it is reasonable to keep on
> > emitting "still waiting" every so often, but we could probably
> > rate-limit that to a lot less than every 2 seconds.
>
> Attached is a patch that rate-limits the "still waiting on lock" message
> to at most once every 10s.
>
> I chose 10s instead of the suggested 2s, since 2s felt too short. But we can
> discuss the appropriate interval and adjust it if needed. The value is
> currently hard-coded, as making it configurable does not seem necessary.

I think that 10 seconds is good.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe