Fix autovacuum launcher shutdown sequence
authorAlvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Wed, 8 Apr 2015 16:19:49 +0000 (13:19 -0300)
committerAlvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Wed, 8 Apr 2015 16:19:49 +0000 (13:19 -0300)
commit0d6c9e061b8b089c7130b1daa4f67219fca8491f
tree18d114cd3dfcc592b834182b0919a2b60b9560a2
parentb1145ca19819ae0d64ef9a3cfd0ed94d300389b3
Fix autovacuum launcher shutdown sequence

It was previously possible to have the launcher re-execute its main loop
before shutting down if some other signal was received or an error
occurred after getting SIGTERM, as reported by Qingqing Zhou.

While investigating, Tom Lane further noticed that if autovacuum had
been disabled in the config file, it would misbehave by trying to start
a new worker instead of bailing out immediately -- it would consider
itself as invoked in emergency mode.

Fix both problems by checking the shutdown flag in a few more places.
These problems have existed since autovacuum was introduced, so
backpatch all the way back.
src/backend/postmaster/autovacuum.c