Yeah, I will, I just don't know when. I have been trying to get to this and lots of other pg_autovacuum tasks, but my schedule has been quite crazy as of late. Anyway, this should probably be a pretty simple patch, so I can probably find some time to look at it soon.
Any idea on the 7.4.3 release timeline? > > I looked into this and I see a number of cases where pg_autovacuum calls > send_query(), but doesn't test for a NULL return from the function. > > Matthew, would you look into this and submit a patch? Thanks. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Jeff Boes wrote: >> 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-( >> >> -- >> Jeff Boes vox 269.226.9550 ext 24 >> Database Engineer fax 269.349.9076 >> Nexcerpt, Inc. http://www.nexcerpt.com >> ...Nexcerpt... Extend your Expertise >> >> >> ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- >> TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend >> > > -- > Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 > + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road > + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania > 19073 > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend
