Re: pg_autovacuum crashes when query fails for temp

Tom Lane wrote:

>"Matthew T. O'Connor" <matthew(at)zeut(dot)net> writes:
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>>This is a good question, and I would like some opinions from some other
>>people more informed than I.
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>You *can not* vacuum other sessions' temp tables; you don't have access
>to the data. (You have no way to get at pages that are modified in
>someone else's local buffer manager.) You could vacuum your own temp
>tables, if you had any, but I would hardly expect autovacuum to have
>any.
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Ok, so I will change pg_autovacuum to explicitly ignore temp tables.
Just to be sure, I can do this by avoiding anything found in the pg_temp
schemea, or is there a better way? Is it possible that a user could or
would put a non-temp table the pg_temp schemea?

>In reference to Chris' followup question, you *should* be vacuuming
>system catalogs, and you *should not* be vacuuming TOAST tables. VACUUM
>on a regular table automatically hits the associated TOAST table.
>

Ok, this is as I thought, pg_autovacuum is already doing the right thing
here. (see the post I just sent a few minutes ago for more details).

Thanks Tom,

Matthew