| From: | Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi> |
| Cc: | Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com>, pgsql-committers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: pgsql: Refactor how some aux processes advertise their ProcNumber |
| Date: | 2026-07-09 12:34:50 |
| Message-ID: | CAHGQGwEwLCGpRnKOnxBz-a5zPUdEdBPhGrq7GPgxc3KtDpyHoQ@mail.gmail.com |
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On Thu, Jul 9, 2026 at 9:17 PM Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi> wrote:
> Why is the autovacuum launcher not an aux process? I guess it's because
> it needs to acquire a heavy-weight lock in order to read the list of
> databases.
That seems to be one of the reasons, based on the comment about auxiliary
processes in miscadmin.h:
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* Auxiliary processes. These have PGPROC entries, but they are not
* attached to any particular database, and cannot run transactions or
* even take heavyweight locks. There can be only one of each of these
* running at a time, except for IO workers.
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Regards,
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Fujii Masao
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