Re: pgsql: Publish more openly the fact that autovacuum is working for

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pgsql: Publish more openly the fact that autovacuum is working for
Date: 2008-07-22 13:19:17
Message-ID: 1216732757.3894.314.camel@ebony.2ndQuadrant
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On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 11:45 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> alvherre(at)postgresql(dot)org (Alvaro Herrera) writes:
> > Publish more openly the fact that autovacuum is working for wraparound
> > protection.
>
> Now that I look more closely, there are two things I don't like about
> this patch:
>
> * it fails to ratchet up MAX_AUTOVAC_ACTIV_LEN to allow for the
> additional text
>
> * it produces something like
>
> autovacuum: VACUUM (to prevent wraparound) foo.bar
>
> I had thought we were generating
>
> autovacuum: VACUUM foo.bar (to prevent wraparound)
>
> which seems both easier to read and less likely to break any
> existing code that might be trying to interpret pg_stat_activity
> entries.

Ratcheted. Will do 8.3 change once approved.

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Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com
PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support

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