Re: Why does slony use a cursor? Anyone know?

From: Shaun Thomas <sthomas(at)optionshouse(dot)com>
To: Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com>
Cc: Filip Rembiałkowski <plk(dot)zuber(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Why does slony use a cursor? Anyone know?
Date: 2013-03-07 14:47:03
Message-ID: 5138A867.8010808@optionshouse.com
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On 03/07/2013 08:23 AM, Kevin Grittner wrote:

> Exactly what version was this? Just about any queuing system (and
> this definitely includes Slony and some JMS implementations) were
> vulnerable to an autovacuum bug fixed with this patch from Jan
> Wieck:

Hmm. It's a 9.1.7 release, so if the latest is 9.1.8, that might be it.

It would explain why my contrived scenario in stage couldn't replicate
it, too. I'm going to see if I can trigger this behavior in stage by
creating a bunch of dead tuples in the slony log table while it's working.

Thanks, Kevin!

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Shaun Thomas
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