Re: PATCH to allow concurrent VACUUMs to not lock each other

Hannu Krosing wrote:
> On K, 2005-05-18 at 11:54 +0300, Hannu Krosing wrote:
> > The attached patch allows VACUUMS's on small relations to clean up dead
> > tuples while VACUUM or ANALYSE is running for a long time on some big
> > table.
> > 
> > This is done by adding a "bool inVacuum" to PGPROC and then making use
> > of it in GetOldestXmin.
> > 
> > This patch is against current CVS head, but should also apply to 8.0.2
> > with minorpach  warnings.
> 
> Could this patch be applied (or rejected if something is badly wrong
> with it) ?
> 
> Or should I move the discussion back to pgsql-hackers ad try to make it
> a TODO first ?
> 
> This patch implements what I described in
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-05/msg00704.php
> plus a small change to make it work for simple ANALYSE too.

I have it in my mailbox and will get to it.  Thanks.

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