Re: Some shared memory chunks are allocated even if related processes won't start

On 2024-Mar-04, Hayato Kuroda (Fujitsu) wrote:

> Dear hackers,
> 
> While reading codes, I found that ApplyLauncherShmemInit() and
> AutoVacuumShmemInit() are always called even if they would not be
> launched.

Note that there are situations where the autovacuum launcher is started
even though autovacuum is nominally turned off, and I suspect your
proposal would break that.  IIRC this occurs when the Xid or multixact
counters cross the max_freeze_age threshold.

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