Extend the ProcSignal mechanism to support barriers.
authorRobert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>
Thu, 19 Dec 2019 19:56:20 +0000 (14:56 -0500)
committerRobert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>
Thu, 19 Dec 2019 19:56:20 +0000 (14:56 -0500)
commit16a4e4aecd47da7a6c4e1ebc20f6dd1a13f9133b
tree598ee1c089f080fde4bcb2e0707bb342fb934aa6
parent9f83468b3536caf6fb7fe8f9dcdbb108a98d1257
Extend the ProcSignal mechanism to support barriers.

A new function EmitProcSignalBarrier() can be used to emit a global
barrier which all backends that participate in the ProcSignal
mechanism must absorb, and a new function WaitForProcSignalBarrier()
can be used to wait until all relevant backends have in fact
absorbed the barrier.

This can be used to coordinate global state changes, such as turning
checksums on while the system is running.

There's no real client of this mechanism yet, although two are
proposed, but an enum has to have at least one element, so this
includes a placeholder type (PROCSIGNAL_BARRIER_PLACEHOLDER) which
should be replaced by the first real client of this mechanism to
get committed.

Andres Freund and Robert Haas, reviewed by Daniel Gustafsson and,
in earlier versions, by Magnus Hagander.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoZwDk=BguVDVa+qdA6SBKef=PKbaKDQALTC_9qoz1mJqg@mail.gmail.com
14 files changed:
doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
src/backend/postmaster/autovacuum.c
src/backend/postmaster/checkpointer.c
src/backend/postmaster/interrupt.c
src/backend/postmaster/pgstat.c
src/backend/postmaster/startup.c
src/backend/replication/walreceiver.c
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
src/backend/storage/ipc/procsignal.c
src/backend/tcop/postgres.c
src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
src/include/miscadmin.h
src/include/pgstat.h
src/include/storage/procsignal.h