Fix up buggy initialization code for poll() and select().

Also some logging and variable name cleanup.

bin/pg_repack.c

@@ -602,7 +602,8 @@ rebuild_indexes(const repack_table *table)
 	const char	   *params[1];
 	int			    num_indexes;
 	int				i;
-	int				num_active_workers = 0;
+	int				num_active_workers;
+	int				num_workers;
 	repack_index   *index_jobs;
 	char			buffer[12];
 	bool            have_error = false;
@@ -630,8 +631,16 @@ rebuild_indexes(const repack_table *table)
 		" FROM pg_index WHERE indrelid = $1 AND indisvalid", 1, params);
 
 	num_indexes = PQntuples(res);
+
+	/* We might have more actual worker connectionss than we need,
+	 * if the number of workers exceeds the number of indexes to be
+	 * built. In that case, ignore the extra workers.
+	 */
+	num_workers = num_indexes > workers.num_workers ? workers.num_workers : num_indexes;
+	num_active_workers = num_workers;
+
 	elog(DEBUG2, "Have %d indexes and num_workers=%d", num_indexes,
-		 workers.num_workers);
+		 num_workers);
 
 	index_jobs = pgut_malloc(sizeof(repack_index) * num_indexes);
 
@@ -651,7 +660,7 @@ rebuild_indexes(const repack_table *table)
 		elog(DEBUG2, "target_oid   : %u", index_jobs[i].target_oid);
 		elog(DEBUG2, "create_index : %s", index_jobs[i].create_index);
 
-		if (workers.num_workers <= 1) {
+		if (num_workers <= 1) {
 			/* Use primary connection if we are not setting up parallel
 			 * index building, or if we only have one worker.
 			 */
@@ -662,12 +671,12 @@ rebuild_indexes(const repack_table *table)
 			 */
 			index_jobs[i].status = FINISHED;
 		}
-		else if (i < workers.num_workers) {
+		else if (i < num_workers) {
 			/* Assign available worker to build an index. */
 			index_jobs[i].status = INPROGRESS;
 			index_jobs[i].worker_idx = i;
-			elog(DEBUG2, "Worker %d building index: %s", i,
-				 index_jobs[i].create_index);
+			elog(LOG, "Initial worker %d to build index: %s",
+				 i, index_jobs[i].create_index);
 
 			if (!(PQsendQuery(workers.conns[i], index_jobs[i].create_index)))
 			{
@@ -685,20 +694,18 @@ rebuild_indexes(const repack_table *table)
 	}
 	PQclear(res);
 
-	/* How many workers we kicked off earlier. */
-	num_active_workers = num_indexes > workers.num_workers ? workers.num_workers : num_indexes;
-
-	if (workers.num_workers > 1)
+	if (num_workers > 1)
 	{
 		int freed_worker = -1;
 		int ret;
 
 /* Prefer poll() over select(), following PostgreSQL custom. */
+#undef HAVE_POLL
 #ifdef HAVE_POLL
 		struct pollfd *input_fds;
 
-		input_fds = pgut_malloc(sizeof(struct pollfd) * num_active_workers);
-		for (i = 0; i < num_active_workers; i++)
+		input_fds = pgut_malloc(sizeof(struct pollfd) * num_workers);
+		for (i = 0; i < num_workers; i++)
 		{
 			input_fds[i].fd = PQsocket(workers.conns[i]);
 			input_fds[i].events = POLLIN | POLLERR;
@@ -708,15 +715,7 @@ rebuild_indexes(const repack_table *table)
 		fd_set input_mask;
 		struct timeval timeout;
 		/* select() needs the highest-numbered socket descriptor */
-		int max_fd = 0;
-
-		FD_ZERO(&input_mask);
-		for (i = 0; i < num_active_workers; i++)
-		{
-			FD_SET(PQsocket(workers.conns[i]), &input_mask);
-			if (PQsocket(workers.conns[i]) > max_fd)
-				max_fd = PQsocket(workers.conns[i]);
-		}
+		int max_fd;
 #endif
 
 		/* Now go through our index builds, and look for any which is
@@ -728,14 +727,23 @@ rebuild_indexes(const repack_table *table)
 			elog(DEBUG2, "polling %d active workers", num_active_workers);
 
 #ifdef HAVE_POLL
-			ret = poll(input_fds, num_active_workers, POLL_TIMEOUT * 1000);
+			ret = poll(input_fds, num_workers, POLL_TIMEOUT * 1000);
 #else
-			/* re-initialize timeout before each invocation of select()
-			 * just in case select() modifies timeout to indicate remaining
-			 * time.
+			/* re-initialize timeout and input_mask before each
+			 * invocation of select(). I think this isn't
+			 * necessary on many Unixen, but just in case.
 			 */
 			timeout.tv_sec = POLL_TIMEOUT;
 			timeout.tv_usec = 0;
+
+			FD_ZERO(&input_mask);
+			for (i = 0, max_fd = 0; i < num_workers; i++)
+			{
+				FD_SET(PQsocket(workers.conns[i]), &input_mask);
+				if (PQsocket(workers.conns[i]) > max_fd)
+					max_fd = PQsocket(workers.conns[i]);
+			}
+
 			ret = select(max_fd + 1, &input_mask, NULL, NULL, &timeout);
 #endif
 			if (ret < 0 && errno != EINTR)
@@ -756,7 +764,7 @@ rebuild_indexes(const repack_table *table)
 					}
 					if (!PQisBusy(workers.conns[index_jobs[i].worker_idx]))
 					{
-						elog(NOTICE, "Command finished in worker %d: %s",
+						elog(LOG, "Command finished in worker %d: %s",
 							 index_jobs[i].worker_idx,
 							 index_jobs[i].create_index);
 
@@ -794,7 +802,7 @@ rebuild_indexes(const repack_table *table)
 					{
 						index_jobs[i].status = INPROGRESS;
 						index_jobs[i].worker_idx = freed_worker;
-						elog(NOTICE, "Assigning worker %d to build index #%d: "
+						elog(LOG, "Assigning worker %d to build index #%d: "
 							 "%s", freed_worker, i,
 							 index_jobs[i].create_index);
 

doc/pg_repack.rst

@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ The following options can be specified in ``OPTIONS``.
 
 Options:
   -a, --all                 repack all databases
-  -j, --jobs                 Use this many parallel jobs for each table
+  -j, --jobs                Use this many parallel jobs for each table
   -n, --no-order            do vacuum full instead of cluster
   -o, --order-by=COLUMNS    order by columns instead of cluster keys
   -t, --table=TABLE         repack specific table only