General Tech

Postgres recovery_prefetch can cause outages

A recent PostgreSQL configuration setting, recovery_prefetch, has been found to cause outages in some cases. The setting is intended to improve performance during database recovery, but it can lead to an infinite loop in certain situations, resulting in a denial of service. The issue has been reported by several users and has been acknowledged by the PostgreSQL community. The community is working on a patch to address the issue.

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