| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Guillaume Smet <guillaume(dot)smet(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Matthew T(dot) O'Connor" <matthew(at)zeut(dot)net>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: First steps with 8.3 and autovacuum launcher |
| Date: | 2007-10-04 18:42:10 |
| Message-ID: | 3495.1191523330@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> I am totally uninclined to mess with this stuff. I am barely aware of
> what exactly is it doing; I don't have the slightest idea how to modify
> it to cancel autovacs. Furthermore it sounds very much like a layering
> violation (what is deadlock.c doing with autovac processes anyway).
I think any fix for this at all is going to qualify as a layering
violation, so I'm not sure that that objection has merit. I hear you on
the first point though. I used to know how the deadlock checker worked,
let me see if I can swap that knowledge back in.
This change isn't going to make beta1 anyway ...
regards, tom lane
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