[ADMIN] pg_autovacuum bug with temp tables?

[Jeff Boes]

Recently I installed and started pg_autovacuum against my new Pg 7.4.1 
installation. We use a fairly large number of temporary tables within an 
application (that is, several copies of this application may be running, 
and each creates and drops several temp tables as they cycle through 
their workload). Here's what I think happened, based on the log 
(pg_autovacuum's and the postmaster's):

pg_autovacuum.log:
[2004-02-15 08:10:01 AM] Performing: ANALYZE "pg_temp_13"."tmp_targs"
[2004-02-15 08:10:01 AM] Can not refresh statistics information from the 
database nexcerpt.
[2004-02-15 08:10:01 AM] The error is [ERROR:  relation 
"pg_temp_13.tmp_targs" does not exist

postmaster.log:
2004-02-15 08:10:01 [31563] ERROR:  relation "pg_temp_13.tmp_targs" does 
not exist
2004-02-15 08:10:01 [31563] LOG:  unexpected EOF on client connection

It appears that pg_autovacuum collected the name of a temp table, and 
later tried to analyze it. The table was gone by then, and this caused 
the daemon to exit. As this happened on a Sunday morning, my weekend 
experiment to see how pg_autovacuum would maintain our test database was 
rather spoiled ... 8-(

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