Re: [PERFORM] More detail on settings for pgavd?

From: Andrew Sullivan <andrew(at)libertyrms(dot)info>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [PERFORM] More detail on settings for pgavd?
Date: 2003-11-26 04:27:46
Message-ID: 20031126042746.GB23015@libertyrms.info
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On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 07:51:17PM -0500, Greg Stark wrote:
> The second vacuum waits for the lock to become available. If the
> situation got really bad there could end up being a growing queue
> of vacuums waiting.

Those of us who have run into this know that "the situation got
really bad" is earlier than one might think. And it can indeed cause
some pretty pathological behaviour.

A

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