Re: Autovacuum in the backend

I am going to start working on it. I am concerned it is a big job.

I will post questions as I find them, and the one below is a good one.

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Qingqing Zhou wrote:
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> "Qingqing Zhou" <zhouqq(at)cs(dot)toronto(dot)edu> writes
> >
> > The start/stop routine is quite like Bgwriter.
> >
>
> I just realized that the non-standard backend can't execute any SQL command.
> If so, how would the background pg_autovacuum do "vacuum"? It could be
> forked more like a standard backend, but this is obviously not a good idea,
> since we don't know which database this process will sit on.
>
> A possible solution is that backgroud pg_autovacuum could fork another
> process to connect to postmaster as an ordinary backend each time it feels
> that a "vacuum" is needed.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Regards,
> Qingqing
>
>
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