At Tue, 5 Feb 2019 20:42:59 +0900, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> wrote in <20190205114259.GH1882@paquier.xyz>
> On Tue, Feb 05, 2019 at 04:11:55PM +0530, Robert Haas wrote:
> > ...not about this part. I think the next checkpoint just doesn't start
> > until the one already in progress completes.
>
> Yes, the requests are communicated from any backends to the
> checkpointer with shared memory (see ckpt_flags in RequestCheckpoint),
> and the backend signals the checkpointer to do the work, still it
> won't do the work until the checkpoint currently running finishes.
And, requests for checkpoints are not queued. Multiple checkpoint
requests (both automatically and manually) made during a
checkpoint are finished at once at the end of the running
checkpoint.
regards.
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Kyotaro Horiguchi
NTT Open Source Software Center