Re: I/O worker and ConfigReload

> On Sun, May 25, 2025 at 02:15:12AM GMT, Thomas Munro wrote:
> On Sun, May 25, 2025 at 1:56 AM Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I've been rebasing the patch for online resizing of shared memory, and
> > noticed something strange about IoWorkerMain: although it sets the
> > handler SignalHandlerForConfigReload, it doesn't look like it acts upon
> > ConfigReloadPending. From what I see it happens because it only does
> > CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS in the main worker loop, which doesn't handle
> > ConfigReloadPending.
> >
> > In the context of shared memory resizing patch it means I/O workers are
> > not receiving the new value of NBuffers and crash. Adding something like
> > pgaio_worker_process_interrupts to deal with ConfigReloadPending at the
> > beginning of the main worker loop seems to solve the issue. But I
> > haven't found any discussion about config reload in I/O workers, was
> > this omission intentional?
>
> You're right, and I noticed the same thing and fixed it in
> 0004-aio-Adjust-IO-worker-pool-size-automatically.patch in
>
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CA%2BhUKG%2Bm4xV0LMoH2c%3DoRAdEXuCnh%2BtGBTWa7uFeFMGgTLAw%2BQ%40mail.gmail.com.
> (That patch also introduces a reason for the workers to care about
> config reload.). Not sure how that happened, ie the history of
> adding/removing reasons to worry about reload, I don't remember, this
> code stewed for a long time, but it's at least inconsistent...  We
> could fix it as you suggested or as shown in that patch.

I see thanks. Indeed, there isn't much difference between what I had in
mind and the relevant bits in 0004, so probably it's the way to go.