Re: [GENERAL] Corrupt database? 8.1/FreeBSD6.0

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Jeff Amiel <becauseimjeff(at)yahoo(dot)com>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Corrupt database? 8.1/FreeBSD6.0
Date: 2007-01-12 21:41:57
Message-ID: 10317.1168638117@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
>>> Ok, it does what it's intended to do. But in testing it I also
>>> confirmed that a database-wide vacuum creates a pgstat entry for it and
>>> for all tables in it. Is this something we want to prevent?
>>
>> That's odd, because I didn't see any such thing when I tested in CVS tip
>> the other day. Or did you have stats_block_level turned on?

> Yes, I turned it on for this test.

Well, the vacuums certainly accounted for I/O, so I suppose this is
reasonable behavior.

regards, tom lane

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