Re: AutoVacuum starvation from sinval messages

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>
Cc: Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2012-11-08T22:50:12Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 2012-11-08 22:40:43 +0000, Simon Riggs wrote:
> On 8 November 2012 20:36, Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > It does not seem outrageous to me that there would be real-world
> > conditions in which invalidations would be sent more than once a
> > minute over prolonged periods, so this total starvation seems like a
> > bug.
>
> Yes, its a bug, but do you really believe the above? In what cases?

Temporary tables might a good contender.

Greetings,

Andres Freund