Re: segfault of autovacuum process during restore - coredumps included

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Frank van Vugt <ftm(dot)van(dot)vugt(at)foxi(dot)nl>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: segfault of autovacuum process during restore - coredumps included
Date: 2005-11-28 17:24:05
Message-ID: 20051128172405.GD18576@surnet.cl
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> > The attached patch should correct the problem, but I'd like to make sure
> > it does ...
>
> Rather than that, I'd suggest just setting ActiveSnapshot
> unconditionally after each of the StartTransactionCommand calls in
> autovacuum.c, ie make the code look just like vacuum.c:
>
> /* Begin a transaction for vacuuming this relation */
> StartTransactionCommand();
> /* functions in indexes may want a snapshot set */
> ActiveSnapshot = CopySnapshot(GetTransactionSnapshot());

Done.

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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