Re: AutoVacuum Behaviour Question

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Bruce McAlister <bruce(dot)mcalister(at)blueface(dot)ie>, General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: AutoVacuum Behaviour Question
Date: 2007-07-17 23:23:16
Message-ID: 200707172323.l6HNNGI29970@momjian.us
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> > > Tom Lane wrote:
> > >> Yeah, we had better investigate some way to clean them up. It was never
> > >> obvious before that it mattered to get rid of orphan temp tables, but I
> > >> guess it does.
> >
> > > Would it be enough to delete the tuple from pg_class?
> >
> > No, you need a full DROP. I don't see that that's harder than removing
> > only the pg_class tuple --- the problem in either case is to be sure
> > it's OK. In particular, how to avoid a race condition against an
> > incoming backend that adopts that BackendId? Worst-case, you could be
> > deleting a temp table he just made.
>
> Oh, I was just thinking in way for Bruce to get out of his current
> situation.
>
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