Re: vacuum as flags in PGPROC

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: vacuum as flags in PGPROC
Date: 2007-10-23 23:13:36
Message-ID: 5598.1193181216@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> In the spirit of incremental improvement, here is a patch that turns the
> couple of bools in PGPROC into a bitmask, and associated fallout.

Maybe declare the field as uint8 instead of char? Otherwise, +1.

> This patch also contains a change to make a cancelled autovacuum
> continue with the schedule (indeed to continue with the schedule on any
> error), rather than aborting completely.

I think we'd considered that a bug to be fixed. Are you intending this
for 8.3 or 8.4? I don't have a problem with it for 8.3, but someone
else might ...

regards, tom lane

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