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Re: First steps with 8.3 and autovacuum launcher

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, Michael Paesold <mpaesold@gmx.at>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com>, Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>, Guillaume Smet <guillaume.smet@gmail.com>, "Matthew T. O'Connor" <matthew@zeut.net>, Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2007-10-12T16:42:48Z
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Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 11:26 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Why not SIGINT?

> I must be missing something. How would I tell the difference between
> manual and automatic cancels if we use SIGINT for both cases?

Why do you need to?  I thought the plan was that DeadlockCheck would
only try to signal autovac workers.

			regards, tom lane