Exemplo n.º 1
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/*
 * 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;
	}
}
Exemplo n.º 2
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/*
 * 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;
	}
}
Exemplo n.º 3
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/*
 * 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;
	}
}
Exemplo n.º 4
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/*
 * 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);
	}
}
Exemplo n.º 5
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/*
 * 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();
	}
}