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Allow changing autovacuum_max_workers without restarting.

This commit introduces a new parameter named
autovacuum_worker_slots that controls how many autovacuum worker
slots to reserve during server startup.  Modifying this new
parameter's value does require a server restart, but it should
typically be set to the upper bound of what you might realistically
need to set autovacuum_max_workers.  With that new parameter in
place, autovacuum_max_workers can now be changed with a SIGHUP
(e.g., pg_ctl reload).

If autovacuum_max_workers is set higher than
autovacuum_worker_slots, a WARNING is emitted, and the server will
only start up to autovacuum_worker_slots workers at a given time.
If autovacuum_max_workers is set to a value less than the number of
currently-running autovacuum workers, the existing workers will
continue running, but no new workers will be started until the
number of running autovacuum workers drops below
autovacuum_max_workers.

Reviewed-by: Sami Imseih, Justin Pryzby, Robert Haas, Andres Freund, Yogesh Sharma
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20240410212344.GA1824549%40nathanxps13
This commit is contained in:
Nathan Bossart
2025-01-06 15:01:22 -06:00
parent 5e68f61192
commit c758119e5b
11 changed files with 117 additions and 31 deletions

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@ -3467,7 +3467,16 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
},
{
/* see max_connections */
{"autovacuum_max_workers", PGC_POSTMASTER, AUTOVACUUM,
{"autovacuum_worker_slots", PGC_POSTMASTER, AUTOVACUUM,
gettext_noop("Sets the number of backend slots to allocate for autovacuum workers."),
NULL
},
&autovacuum_worker_slots,
16, 1, MAX_BACKENDS,
NULL, NULL, NULL
},
{
{"autovacuum_max_workers", PGC_SIGHUP, AUTOVACUUM,
gettext_noop("Sets the maximum number of simultaneously running autovacuum worker processes."),
NULL
},