Matthew T. O'Connor wrote: > This weekend I am trying to fix up all known the pg_autovacuum issues > that should be resolved for 7.4.3. I am aware of only two issues: temp > table issues, and unchecked send_query() calls, if I am forgetting > something, please let me know. > > 1) temp table issue: > I was not able to reproduce the crash associated with temp tables. I > spent a while creating tables doing updates and dropping them trying > without success to get pg_autovacuum to crash. Since I couldn't trigger > the problem, I will need someone else to test to see if I have fixed the > problem. Anyway, I have modified the query to exclude temp tables from > the list of tables to work with. So we should no longer be dealing with > temp tables at all which should side step any temp table related problem > we might have been having. > > 2) Unchecked send_query() function calls: > As best as I can tell, this is mostly a non-issue, but I went ahead > added a check to any section that did anything with the result of > send_query, so if this was an issue, it should be fixed now. BTW, this > might have been the cause of the temp table related crash, but that is > just a guess.
It is not a non-issue. A query could fail for thousands of reasons, and doing a core dump is never a solution. Yes, these are the only two known issues. -- 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 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
