/* * CheckpointWriteDelay -- control rate of checkpoint * * This function is called after each page write performed by BufferSync(). * It is responsible for throttling BufferSync()'s write rate to hit * checkpoint_completion_target. * * The checkpoint request flags should be passed in; currently the only one * examined is CHECKPOINT_IMMEDIATE, which disables delays between writes. * * 'progress' is an estimate of how much of the work has been done, as a * fraction between 0.0 meaning none, and 1.0 meaning all done. */ void CheckpointWriteDelay(int flags, double progress) { static int absorb_counter = WRITES_PER_ABSORB; /* Do nothing if checkpoint is being executed by non-checkpointer process */ if (!AmCheckpointerProcess()) return; /* * Perform the usual duties and take a nap, unless we're behind schedule, * in which case we just try to catch up as quickly as possible. */ if (!(flags & CHECKPOINT_IMMEDIATE) && !shutdown_requested && !ImmediateCheckpointRequested() && IsCheckpointOnSchedule(progress)) { if (got_SIGHUP) { got_SIGHUP = false; ProcessConfigFile(PGC_SIGHUP); /* update shmem copies of config variables */ UpdateSharedMemoryConfig(); } AbsorbFsyncRequests(); absorb_counter = WRITES_PER_ABSORB; CheckArchiveTimeout(); /* * Report interim activity statistics to the stats collector. */ pgstat_send_bgwriter(); /* * This sleep used to be connected to bgwriter_delay, typically 200ms. * That resulted in more frequent wakeups if not much work to do. * Checkpointer and bgwriter are no longer related so take the Big * Sleep. */ pg_usleep(100000L); } else if (--absorb_counter <= 0) { /* * Absorb pending fsync requests after each WRITES_PER_ABSORB write * operations even when we don't sleep, to prevent overflow of the * fsync request queue. */ AbsorbFsyncRequests(); absorb_counter = WRITES_PER_ABSORB; } }
/* * CheckpointWriteDelay -- control rate of checkpoint * * This function is called after each page write performed by BufferSync(). * It is responsible for throttling BufferSync()'s write rate to hit * checkpoint_completion_target. * * The checkpoint request flags should be passed in; currently the only one * examined is CHECKPOINT_IMMEDIATE, which disables delays between writes. * * 'progress' is an estimate of how much of the work has been done, as a * fraction between 0.0 meaning none, and 1.0 meaning all done. */ void CheckpointWriteDelay(int flags, double progress) { static int absorb_counter = WRITES_PER_ABSORB; /* Do nothing if checkpoint is being executed by non-checkpointer process */ if (!am_checkpointer) return; /* * Perform the usual duties and take a nap, unless we're behind * schedule, in which case we just try to catch up as quickly as possible. */ if (!(flags & CHECKPOINT_IMMEDIATE) && !shutdown_requested && !ImmediateCheckpointRequested() && IsCheckpointOnSchedule(progress)) { if (got_SIGHUP) { got_SIGHUP = false; ProcessConfigFile(PGC_SIGHUP); /* update global shmem state for sync rep */ SyncRepUpdateSyncStandbysDefined(); } AbsorbFsyncRequests(); absorb_counter = WRITES_PER_ABSORB; CheckArchiveTimeout(); /* * Checkpoint sleep used to be connected to bgwriter_delay at 200ms. * That resulted in more frequent wakeups if not much work to do. * Checkpointer and bgwriter are no longer related so take the Big Sleep. */ pg_usleep(100000L); } else if (--absorb_counter <= 0) { /* * Absorb pending fsync requests after each WRITES_PER_ABSORB write * operations even when we don't sleep, to prevent overflow of the * fsync request queue. */ AbsorbFsyncRequests(); absorb_counter = WRITES_PER_ABSORB; } }
/* * CheckpointWriteDelay -- yield control to bgwriter during a checkpoint * * This function is called after each page write performed by BufferSync(). * It is responsible for keeping the bgwriter's normal activities in * progress during a long checkpoint, and for throttling BufferSync()'s * write rate to hit checkpoint_completion_target. * * The checkpoint request flags should be passed in; currently the only one * examined is CHECKPOINT_IMMEDIATE, which disables delays between writes. * * 'progress' is an estimate of how much of the work has been done, as a * fraction between 0.0 meaning none, and 1.0 meaning all done. */ void CheckpointWriteDelay(int flags, double progress) { static int absorb_counter = WRITES_PER_ABSORB; /* Do nothing if checkpoint is being executed by non-bgwriter process */ if (!am_bg_writer) return; /* * Perform the usual bgwriter duties and take a nap, unless we're behind * schedule, in which case we just try to catch up as quickly as possible. */ if (!(flags & CHECKPOINT_IMMEDIATE) && !shutdown_requested && !ImmediateCheckpointRequested() && IsCheckpointOnSchedule(progress)) { if (got_SIGHUP) { got_SIGHUP = false; ProcessConfigFile(PGC_SIGHUP); /* update global shmem state for sync rep */ SyncRepUpdateSyncStandbysDefined(); } AbsorbFsyncRequests(); absorb_counter = WRITES_PER_ABSORB; BgBufferSync(); CheckArchiveTimeout(); BgWriterNap(); } else if (--absorb_counter <= 0) { /* * Absorb pending fsync requests after each WRITES_PER_ABSORB write * operations even when we don't sleep, to prevent overflow of the * fsync request queue. */ AbsorbFsyncRequests(); absorb_counter = WRITES_PER_ABSORB; } }
/* * Main entry point for checkpointer process * * This is invoked from AuxiliaryProcessMain, which has already created the * basic execution environment, but not enabled signals yet. */ void CheckpointerMain(void) { sigjmp_buf local_sigjmp_buf; MemoryContext checkpointer_context; CheckpointerShmem->checkpointer_pid = MyProcPid; /* * Properly accept or ignore signals the postmaster might send us * * Note: we deliberately ignore SIGTERM, because during a standard Unix * system shutdown cycle, init will SIGTERM all processes at once. We * want to wait for the backends to exit, whereupon the postmaster will * tell us it's okay to shut down (via SIGUSR2). */ pqsignal(SIGHUP, ChkptSigHupHandler); /* set flag to read config * file */ pqsignal(SIGINT, ReqCheckpointHandler); /* request checkpoint */ pqsignal(SIGTERM, SIG_IGN); /* ignore SIGTERM */ pqsignal(SIGQUIT, chkpt_quickdie); /* hard crash time */ pqsignal(SIGALRM, SIG_IGN); pqsignal(SIGPIPE, SIG_IGN); pqsignal(SIGUSR1, chkpt_sigusr1_handler); pqsignal(SIGUSR2, ReqShutdownHandler); /* request shutdown */ /* * Reset some signals that are accepted by postmaster but not here */ pqsignal(SIGCHLD, SIG_DFL); pqsignal(SIGTTIN, SIG_DFL); pqsignal(SIGTTOU, SIG_DFL); pqsignal(SIGCONT, SIG_DFL); pqsignal(SIGWINCH, SIG_DFL); /* We allow SIGQUIT (quickdie) at all times */ sigdelset(&BlockSig, SIGQUIT); /* * Initialize so that first time-driven event happens at the correct time. */ last_checkpoint_time = last_xlog_switch_time = (pg_time_t) time(NULL); /* * Create a resource owner to keep track of our resources (currently only * buffer pins). */ CurrentResourceOwner = ResourceOwnerCreate(NULL, "Checkpointer"); /* * Create a memory context that we will do all our work in. We do this so * that we can reset the context during error recovery and thereby avoid * possible memory leaks. Formerly this code just ran in * TopMemoryContext, but resetting that would be a really bad idea. */ checkpointer_context = AllocSetContextCreate(TopMemoryContext, "Checkpointer", ALLOCSET_DEFAULT_SIZES); MemoryContextSwitchTo(checkpointer_context); /* * If an exception is encountered, processing resumes here. * * See notes in postgres.c about the design of this coding. */ if (sigsetjmp(local_sigjmp_buf, 1) != 0) { /* Since not using PG_TRY, must reset error stack by hand */ error_context_stack = NULL; /* Prevent interrupts while cleaning up */ HOLD_INTERRUPTS(); /* Report the error to the server log */ EmitErrorReport(); /* * These operations are really just a minimal subset of * AbortTransaction(). We don't have very many resources to worry * about in checkpointer, but we do have LWLocks, buffers, and temp * files. */ LWLockReleaseAll(); ConditionVariableCancelSleep(); pgstat_report_wait_end(); AbortBufferIO(); UnlockBuffers(); /* buffer pins are released here: */ ResourceOwnerRelease(CurrentResourceOwner, RESOURCE_RELEASE_BEFORE_LOCKS, false, true); /* we needn't bother with the other ResourceOwnerRelease phases */ AtEOXact_Buffers(false); AtEOXact_SMgr(); AtEOXact_Files(); AtEOXact_HashTables(false); /* Warn any waiting backends that the checkpoint failed. */ if (ckpt_active) { SpinLockAcquire(&CheckpointerShmem->ckpt_lck); CheckpointerShmem->ckpt_failed++; CheckpointerShmem->ckpt_done = CheckpointerShmem->ckpt_started; SpinLockRelease(&CheckpointerShmem->ckpt_lck); ckpt_active = false; } /* * Now return to normal top-level context and clear ErrorContext for * next time. */ MemoryContextSwitchTo(checkpointer_context); FlushErrorState(); /* Flush any leaked data in the top-level context */ MemoryContextResetAndDeleteChildren(checkpointer_context); /* Now we can allow interrupts again */ RESUME_INTERRUPTS(); /* * Sleep at least 1 second after any error. A write error is likely * to be repeated, and we don't want to be filling the error logs as * fast as we can. */ pg_usleep(1000000L); /* * Close all open files after any error. This is helpful on Windows, * where holding deleted files open causes various strange errors. * It's not clear we need it elsewhere, but shouldn't hurt. */ smgrcloseall(); } /* We can now handle ereport(ERROR) */ PG_exception_stack = &local_sigjmp_buf; /* * Unblock signals (they were blocked when the postmaster forked us) */ PG_SETMASK(&UnBlockSig); /* * Ensure all shared memory values are set correctly for the config. Doing * this here ensures no race conditions from other concurrent updaters. */ UpdateSharedMemoryConfig(); /* * Advertise our latch that backends can use to wake us up while we're * sleeping. */ ProcGlobal->checkpointerLatch = &MyProc->procLatch; /* * Loop forever */ for (;;) { bool do_checkpoint = false; int flags = 0; pg_time_t now; int elapsed_secs; int cur_timeout; int rc; /* Clear any already-pending wakeups */ ResetLatch(MyLatch); /* * Process any requests or signals received recently. */ AbsorbFsyncRequests(); if (got_SIGHUP) { got_SIGHUP = false; ProcessConfigFile(PGC_SIGHUP); /* * Checkpointer is the last process to shut down, so we ask it to * hold the keys for a range of other tasks required most of which * have nothing to do with checkpointing at all. * * For various reasons, some config values can change dynamically * so the primary copy of them is held in shared memory to make * sure all backends see the same value. We make Checkpointer * responsible for updating the shared memory copy if the * parameter setting changes because of SIGHUP. */ UpdateSharedMemoryConfig(); } if (checkpoint_requested) { checkpoint_requested = false; do_checkpoint = true; BgWriterStats.m_requested_checkpoints++; } if (shutdown_requested) { /* * From here on, elog(ERROR) should end with exit(1), not send * control back to the sigsetjmp block above */ ExitOnAnyError = true; /* Close down the database */ ShutdownXLOG(0, 0); /* Normal exit from the checkpointer is here */ proc_exit(0); /* done */ } /* * Force a checkpoint if too much time has elapsed since the last one. * Note that we count a timed checkpoint in stats only when this * occurs without an external request, but we set the CAUSE_TIME flag * bit even if there is also an external request. */ now = (pg_time_t) time(NULL); elapsed_secs = now - last_checkpoint_time; if (elapsed_secs >= CheckPointTimeout) { if (!do_checkpoint) BgWriterStats.m_timed_checkpoints++; do_checkpoint = true; flags |= CHECKPOINT_CAUSE_TIME; } /* * Do a checkpoint if requested. */ if (do_checkpoint) { bool ckpt_performed = false; bool do_restartpoint; /* * Check if we should perform a checkpoint or a restartpoint. As a * side-effect, RecoveryInProgress() initializes TimeLineID if * it's not set yet. */ do_restartpoint = RecoveryInProgress(); /* * Atomically fetch the request flags to figure out what kind of a * checkpoint we should perform, and increase the started-counter * to acknowledge that we've started a new checkpoint. */ SpinLockAcquire(&CheckpointerShmem->ckpt_lck); flags |= CheckpointerShmem->ckpt_flags; CheckpointerShmem->ckpt_flags = 0; CheckpointerShmem->ckpt_started++; SpinLockRelease(&CheckpointerShmem->ckpt_lck); /* * The end-of-recovery checkpoint is a real checkpoint that's * performed while we're still in recovery. */ if (flags & CHECKPOINT_END_OF_RECOVERY) do_restartpoint = false; /* * We will warn if (a) too soon since last checkpoint (whatever * caused it) and (b) somebody set the CHECKPOINT_CAUSE_XLOG flag * since the last checkpoint start. Note in particular that this * implementation will not generate warnings caused by * CheckPointTimeout < CheckPointWarning. */ if (!do_restartpoint && (flags & CHECKPOINT_CAUSE_XLOG) && elapsed_secs < CheckPointWarning) ereport(LOG, (errmsg_plural("checkpoints are occurring too frequently (%d second apart)", "checkpoints are occurring too frequently (%d seconds apart)", elapsed_secs, elapsed_secs), errhint("Consider increasing the configuration parameter \"max_wal_size\"."))); /* * Initialize checkpointer-private variables used during * checkpoint. */ ckpt_active = true; if (do_restartpoint) ckpt_start_recptr = GetXLogReplayRecPtr(NULL); else ckpt_start_recptr = GetInsertRecPtr(); ckpt_start_time = now; ckpt_cached_elapsed = 0; /* * Do the checkpoint. */ if (!do_restartpoint) { CreateCheckPoint(flags); ckpt_performed = true; } else ckpt_performed = CreateRestartPoint(flags); /* * After any checkpoint, close all smgr files. This is so we * won't hang onto smgr references to deleted files indefinitely. */ smgrcloseall(); /* * Indicate checkpoint completion to any waiting backends. */ SpinLockAcquire(&CheckpointerShmem->ckpt_lck); CheckpointerShmem->ckpt_done = CheckpointerShmem->ckpt_started; SpinLockRelease(&CheckpointerShmem->ckpt_lck); if (ckpt_performed) { /* * Note we record the checkpoint start time not end time as * last_checkpoint_time. This is so that time-driven * checkpoints happen at a predictable spacing. */ last_checkpoint_time = now; } else { /* * We were not able to perform the restartpoint (checkpoints * throw an ERROR in case of error). Most likely because we * have not received any new checkpoint WAL records since the * last restartpoint. Try again in 15 s. */ last_checkpoint_time = now - CheckPointTimeout + 15; } ckpt_active = false; } /* Check for archive_timeout and switch xlog files if necessary. */ CheckArchiveTimeout(); /* * Send off activity statistics to the stats collector. (The reason * why we re-use bgwriter-related code for this is that the bgwriter * and checkpointer used to be just one process. It's probably not * worth the trouble to split the stats support into two independent * stats message types.) */ pgstat_send_bgwriter(); /* * Sleep until we are signaled or it's time for another checkpoint or * xlog file switch. */ now = (pg_time_t) time(NULL); elapsed_secs = now - last_checkpoint_time; if (elapsed_secs >= CheckPointTimeout) continue; /* no sleep for us ... */ cur_timeout = CheckPointTimeout - elapsed_secs; if (XLogArchiveTimeout > 0 && !RecoveryInProgress()) { elapsed_secs = now - last_xlog_switch_time; if (elapsed_secs >= XLogArchiveTimeout) continue; /* no sleep for us ... */ cur_timeout = Min(cur_timeout, XLogArchiveTimeout - elapsed_secs); } rc = WaitLatch(MyLatch, WL_LATCH_SET | WL_TIMEOUT | WL_POSTMASTER_DEATH, cur_timeout * 1000L /* convert to ms */, WAIT_EVENT_CHECKPOINTER_MAIN); /* * Emergency bailout if postmaster has died. This is to avoid the * necessity for manual cleanup of all postmaster children. */ if (rc & WL_POSTMASTER_DEATH) exit(1); } }
/* * Main entry point for bgwriter process * * This is invoked from BootstrapMain, which has already created the basic * execution environment, but not enabled signals yet. */ void BackgroundWriterMain(void) { sigjmp_buf local_sigjmp_buf; MemoryContext bgwriter_context; BgWriterShmem->bgwriter_pid = MyProcPid; am_bg_writer = true; /* * If possible, make this process a group leader, so that the postmaster * can signal any child processes too. (bgwriter probably never has any * child processes, but for consistency we make all postmaster child * processes do this.) */ #ifdef HAVE_SETSID if (setsid() < 0) elog(FATAL, "setsid() failed: %m"); #endif /* * Properly accept or ignore signals the postmaster might send us * * Note: we deliberately ignore SIGTERM, because during a standard Unix * system shutdown cycle, init will SIGTERM all processes at once. We * want to wait for the backends to exit, whereupon the postmaster will * tell us it's okay to shut down (via SIGUSR2). * * SIGUSR1 is presently unused; keep it spare in case someday we want this * process to participate in sinval messaging. */ pqsignal(SIGHUP, BgSigHupHandler); /* set flag to read config file */ pqsignal(SIGINT, ReqCheckpointHandler); /* request checkpoint */ pqsignal(SIGTERM, SIG_IGN); /* ignore SIGTERM */ pqsignal(SIGQUIT, bg_quickdie); /* hard crash time */ pqsignal(SIGALRM, SIG_IGN); pqsignal(SIGPIPE, SIG_IGN); pqsignal(SIGUSR1, SIG_IGN); /* reserve for sinval */ pqsignal(SIGUSR2, ReqShutdownHandler); /* request shutdown */ /* * Reset some signals that are accepted by postmaster but not here */ pqsignal(SIGCHLD, SIG_DFL); pqsignal(SIGTTIN, SIG_DFL); pqsignal(SIGTTOU, SIG_DFL); pqsignal(SIGCONT, SIG_DFL); pqsignal(SIGWINCH, SIG_DFL); /* We allow SIGQUIT (quickdie) at all times */ #ifdef HAVE_SIGPROCMASK sigdelset(&BlockSig, SIGQUIT); #else BlockSig &= ~(sigmask(SIGQUIT)); #endif /* * Initialize so that first time-driven event happens at the correct time. */ last_checkpoint_time = last_xlog_switch_time = time(NULL); /* * Create a resource owner to keep track of our resources (currently only * buffer pins). */ CurrentResourceOwner = ResourceOwnerCreate(NULL, "Background Writer"); /* * Create a memory context that we will do all our work in. We do this so * that we can reset the context during error recovery and thereby avoid * possible memory leaks. Formerly this code just ran in * TopMemoryContext, but resetting that would be a really bad idea. */ bgwriter_context = AllocSetContextCreate(TopMemoryContext, "Background Writer", ALLOCSET_DEFAULT_MINSIZE, ALLOCSET_DEFAULT_INITSIZE, ALLOCSET_DEFAULT_MAXSIZE); MemoryContextSwitchTo(bgwriter_context); /* * If an exception is encountered, processing resumes here. * * See notes in postgres.c about the design of this coding. */ if (sigsetjmp(local_sigjmp_buf, 1) != 0) { /* Since not using PG_TRY, must reset error stack by hand */ error_context_stack = NULL; /* Prevent interrupts while cleaning up */ HOLD_INTERRUPTS(); /* Report the error to the server log */ EmitErrorReport(); /* * These operations are really just a minimal subset of * AbortTransaction(). We don't have very many resources to worry * about in bgwriter, but we do have LWLocks, buffers, and temp files. */ LWLockReleaseAll(); AbortBufferIO(); UnlockBuffers(); /* buffer pins are released here: */ ResourceOwnerRelease(CurrentResourceOwner, RESOURCE_RELEASE_BEFORE_LOCKS, false, true); /* we needn't bother with the other ResourceOwnerRelease phases */ AtEOXact_Buffers(false); AtEOXact_Files(); AtEOXact_HashTables(false); /* Warn any waiting backends that the checkpoint failed. */ if (ckpt_active) { /* use volatile pointer to prevent code rearrangement */ volatile BgWriterShmemStruct *bgs = BgWriterShmem; SpinLockAcquire(&bgs->ckpt_lck); bgs->ckpt_failed++; bgs->ckpt_done = bgs->ckpt_started; SpinLockRelease(&bgs->ckpt_lck); ckpt_active = false; } /* * Now return to normal top-level context and clear ErrorContext for * next time. */ MemoryContextSwitchTo(bgwriter_context); FlushErrorState(); /* Flush any leaked data in the top-level context */ MemoryContextResetAndDeleteChildren(bgwriter_context); /* Now we can allow interrupts again */ RESUME_INTERRUPTS(); /* * Sleep at least 1 second after any error. A write error is likely * to be repeated, and we don't want to be filling the error logs as * fast as we can. */ pg_usleep(1000000L); /* * Close all open files after any error. This is helpful on Windows, * where holding deleted files open causes various strange errors. * It's not clear we need it elsewhere, but shouldn't hurt. */ smgrcloseall(); } /* We can now handle ereport(ERROR) */ PG_exception_stack = &local_sigjmp_buf; /* * Unblock signals (they were blocked when the postmaster forked us) */ PG_SETMASK(&UnBlockSig); /* * Loop forever */ for (;;) { bool do_checkpoint = false; int flags = 0; time_t now; int elapsed_secs; /* * Emergency bailout if postmaster has died. This is to avoid the * necessity for manual cleanup of all postmaster children. */ if (!PostmasterIsAlive(true)) exit(1); /* * Process any requests or signals received recently. */ AbsorbFsyncRequests(); if (got_SIGHUP) { got_SIGHUP = false; ProcessConfigFile(PGC_SIGHUP); } if (checkpoint_requested) { checkpoint_requested = false; do_checkpoint = true; BgWriterStats.m_requested_checkpoints++; } if (shutdown_requested) { /* * From here on, elog(ERROR) should end with exit(1), not send * control back to the sigsetjmp block above */ ExitOnAnyError = true; /* Close down the database */ ShutdownXLOG(0, 0); DumpFreeSpaceMap(0, 0); /* Normal exit from the bgwriter is here */ proc_exit(0); /* done */ } /* * Force a checkpoint if too much time has elapsed since the last one. * Note that we count a timed checkpoint in stats only when this * occurs without an external request, but we set the CAUSE_TIME flag * bit even if there is also an external request. */ now = time(NULL); elapsed_secs = now - last_checkpoint_time; if (elapsed_secs >= CheckPointTimeout) { if (!do_checkpoint) BgWriterStats.m_timed_checkpoints++; do_checkpoint = true; flags |= CHECKPOINT_CAUSE_TIME; } /* * Do a checkpoint if requested, otherwise do one cycle of * dirty-buffer writing. */ if (do_checkpoint) { /* use volatile pointer to prevent code rearrangement */ volatile BgWriterShmemStruct *bgs = BgWriterShmem; /* * Atomically fetch the request flags to figure out what kind of a * checkpoint we should perform, and increase the started-counter * to acknowledge that we've started a new checkpoint. */ SpinLockAcquire(&bgs->ckpt_lck); flags |= bgs->ckpt_flags; bgs->ckpt_flags = 0; bgs->ckpt_started++; SpinLockRelease(&bgs->ckpt_lck); /* * We will warn if (a) too soon since last checkpoint (whatever * caused it) and (b) somebody set the CHECKPOINT_CAUSE_XLOG flag * since the last checkpoint start. Note in particular that this * implementation will not generate warnings caused by * CheckPointTimeout < CheckPointWarning. */ if ((flags & CHECKPOINT_CAUSE_XLOG) && elapsed_secs < CheckPointWarning) ereport(LOG, (errmsg("checkpoints are occurring too frequently (%d seconds apart)", elapsed_secs), errhint("Consider increasing the configuration parameter \"checkpoint_segments\"."))); /* * Initialize bgwriter-private variables used during checkpoint. */ ckpt_active = true; ckpt_start_recptr = GetInsertRecPtr(); ckpt_start_time = now; ckpt_cached_elapsed = 0; /* * Do the checkpoint. */ CreateCheckPoint(flags); /* * After any checkpoint, close all smgr files. This is so we * won't hang onto smgr references to deleted files indefinitely. */ smgrcloseall(); /* * Indicate checkpoint completion to any waiting backends. */ SpinLockAcquire(&bgs->ckpt_lck); bgs->ckpt_done = bgs->ckpt_started; SpinLockRelease(&bgs->ckpt_lck); ckpt_active = false; /* * Note we record the checkpoint start time not end time as * last_checkpoint_time. This is so that time-driven checkpoints * happen at a predictable spacing. */ last_checkpoint_time = now; } else BgBufferSync(); /* Check for archive_timeout and switch xlog files if necessary. */ CheckArchiveTimeout(); /* Nap for the configured time. */ BgWriterNap(); } }