Re: autovacuum and temporary tables

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Csaba Nagy <nagy(at)ecircle-ag(dot)com>
Cc: Postgres general mailing list <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: autovacuum and temporary tables
Date: 2006-01-20 15:23:11
Message-ID: 17345.1137770591@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Csaba Nagy <nagy(at)ecircle-ag(dot)com> writes:
> I have a postgres 8.0 installation, and I'm running autovacuum against
> it. I have noticed that it processes temporary tables too, which is in
> itself a bit curious, but the problem is that autovacuum might even
> crash if a temporary table is suddenly gone while it tries to vacuum
> it... that's what happened once here.

8.0.what? I'm wondering if you are missing this 8.0.5 fix:

2005-10-20 12:14 tgl

* contrib/pg_autovacuum/pg_autovacuum.c (REL8_0_STABLE): Prevent
core dump in contrib version of autovacuum when a table has been
dropped. Per report from daveg (not his patch, though).

regards, tom lane

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