Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com> writes:
> On 8 November 2012 20:36, Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com> wrote:
>> It does not seem outrageous to me that there would be real-world
>> conditions in which invalidations would be sent more than once a
>> minute over prolonged periods, so this total starvation seems like a
>> bug.
> Yes, its a bug, but do you really believe the above? In what cases?
It doesn't take a whole lot of DDL to provoke an sinval overrun, if
the recipient process is just sitting idle and not servicing the
messages. I think Jeff's concern is entirely valid.
regards, tom lane