Alvaro Herrera wrote: > I did it that way (i.e. added locking) and then realized that it > shouldn't really be a problem, because the only one who can be setting > vacuum flags is the process itself. Other processes can only read the > flags.
It would still be a problem if there was any other fields that were updated by other processes, adjacent to the vacuum flags. I don't think that's the case, however. -- Heikki Linnakangas EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster