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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: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>, Guillaume Smet <guillaume.smet@gmail.com>, "Matthew T. O'Connor" <matthew@zeut.net>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com>, Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2007-10-04T18:42:10Z
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> I am totally uninclined to mess with this stuff.  I am barely aware of
> what exactly is it doing; I don't have the slightest idea how to modify
> it to cancel autovacs.  Furthermore it sounds very much like a layering
> violation (what is deadlock.c doing with autovac processes anyway).

I think any fix for this at all is going to qualify as a layering
violation, so I'm not sure that that objection has merit.  I hear you on
the first point though.  I used to know how the deadlock checker worked,
let me see if I can swap that knowledge back in.

This change isn't going to make beta1 anyway ...

			regards, tom lane