Re: First steps with 8.3 and autovacuum launcher

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Matthew T(dot) O'Connor" <matthew(at)zeut(dot)net>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>, Guillaume Smet <guillaume(dot)smet(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: First steps with 8.3 and autovacuum launcher
Date: 2007-10-01 23:35:36
Message-ID: 24302.1191281736@sss.pgh.pa.us
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[ on further thought ]

"Matthew T. O'Connor" <matthew(at)zeut(dot)net> writes:
>> ... solving the problem
>> for analyze is a nice piece of low-hanging fruit that solves an
>> immediate problem that has been reported.

Actually, if you wanted a low-hanging solution to that, it would
probably be to revert this 8.2 patch:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2006-09/msg00284.php

We did that because people were complaining of unexpected failures in
manual ANALYZEs, but perhaps the cure is worse than the disease.

regards, tom lane

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