Re: can't stop autovacuum by HUP'ing the server

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Dave Cramer <pg(at)fastcrypt(dot)com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Alvaro Herrera <
> alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
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>> Dave Cramer wrote:
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>> > Ok, here are the logs from last night
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>> > 2008-08-26 04:00:02 EDT [25407] LOG: received SIGHUP, reloading
>> > configuration files
>> > 2008-08-26 04:00:02 EDT [22649] LOG: autovacuum launcher shutting down
>> > 2008-08-26 04:00:02 EDT [30438] LOG: autovacuum launcher started
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>> > you can see the SIGHUP, the launcher being shut down, and starting right
>> > back up again ???
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>> > is this expected behaviour ?
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>> Certainly not, and that's not what I see here either. I assume process
>> 25407 is (was) the postmaster, yes?
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>> If you "show autovacuum", is it on?
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> Yes that was the postmaster, and I did check to see if autovacuum was on,
> and it was not.
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> Dave
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So where do we go from here ?