Re: Autovacuum of pg_database

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Ondřej Světlík <osvetlik(at)flexibee(dot)eu>, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Autovacuum of pg_database
Date: 2016-05-06 14:17:04
Message-ID: 13485.1462544224@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> These are all shared catalogs. There are others, so you may still see
> more. We got another report for pg_database
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/A9D40BB7-CFD6-46AF-A0A1-249F04878A2A%40amazon.com
> so I suppose there really is a bug. I don't know what's going on there.

I think it's pretty obvious: autovacuum.c's rule for detecting whether
some other worker is already processing table X is wrong when X is a
shared table. I propose the attached patch.

regards, tom lane

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autovac-shared-table-handling.patch text/x-diff 7.9 KB

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