Re: We need to log aborted autovacuums

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: We need to log aborted autovacuums
Date: 2011-01-16 18:26:38
Message-ID: 10205.1295202398@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> No, I don't believe we should be messing with the semantics of
>> try_relation_open. It is what it is.

> With only four pretty simple callers to the thing, and two of them
> needing the alternate behavior, it seemed a reasonable place to modify
> to me. I thought the "nowait" boolean idea was in enough places that it
> was reasonable to attach to try_relation_open.

I would be willing to do that if it actually fixed the problem, but it
doesn't. Logging only the table OID and not the table name is entirely
inadequate IMO, so the fix has to be at a different place anyway.

regards, tom lane

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