On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 1:32 AM Simon Riggs
<simon.riggs@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> Re-attaching patch for bgwriter and walwriter, so it is clear this is
> not yet committed.
I'm just curious, and not suggesting that 60s wakeups are a problem
for the polar ice caps, but why even time out at all? Are the latch
protocols involved not reliable enough? At a guess from a quick
glance, the walwriter's is but maybe the bgwriter could miss a wakeup
as it races against StrategyGetBuffer(), which means you might stay
asleep until the *next* buffer allocation, but that's already true I
think, and a 60s timeout is not much of a defence.