"Matthew T. O'Connor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:I agree. The thought had crossed my mind that autovac should shut down first, but I'm really not sure how to make that happen.
You have to issue the kill() when the postmaster first receives the shutdown signal, rather than waiting till after all backends exit. Also, there needs to be some provision for sending a SIGINT to whichever backend is actually running an autovac-commanded vacuum. One way to do this is for autovac, when it gets the SIGUSR2, to turn around and do PQqueryCancel (sp?) against the active connection. I'm not sure offhand how to shoehorn that into your code.
Ok, I'll see what I can do about this.
Right, I didn't want to use GUC vars for this. As I said in the other email, I will take a whack at using a new special .autovacpasswd file in the $PGDATA dir.
I'd go with autovac.parms or some such. $PGDATA isn't anyone's home dir (normally) and there's no need to tuck config files out of sight.
Ok. I assume I can crib from the code that uses the .pgpass file.
On platforms with no local ident support, that would equate to making autovac unusable. I think it's a must-fix.
Ok.
I looked into changing my elog calls to ereport, but ....
DBAs are ordinary users in this context. I think elog is okay for stuff that only a developer would ever see, but DBAs want translated messages.
Oh, I didn't understand that ereport provided translatable messages whereas elog does not. That makes sense. I'll change the elog calls.
Ok, some of this cruft is related to its roots as a stand-alone app. I will fix this too. So the correct answer here is to skip the elog/ereport and call proc_exit(), or should I just downgrade the elog to NOTICE and then call proc_exit()? Lemme know and I'll fix.
Actually what I was thinking of was removing the sigsetjmp block (which would need updated anyway if you keep it). That would cause elog(ERROR) to go to proc_exit itself. You cannot avoid the issue by not using elog(ERROR), because you are (or will be) calling subroutines that might use it.
Ok, If I remove the sigsetjmp block, is there anything else I need to do, or can I just rip out everything between the {}'s?
Thanks again for the comments. I have a full plate at work today, but I'm going to try to leave at five and spend the evening fixing as much of this as possible.
Matthew
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