Re: Status of autovacuum and the sporadic stats failures ?

Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> I'm tempted to propose replacing the fixed sleep with a short plpgsql
>> function that sleeps for a second, checks to see if the stats have
>> changed, repeats if not; giving up only after perhaps 30 seconds.
>>
>> It'd be interesting to try to gather stats on the length of the delay
>> taken, but I don't see a good way to do that within the current
>> regression-test infrastructure.

> Have it log something that will appear on the postmaster log but not the
> client log? Buildfarm members mostly post their complete postmaster
> logs, and we could postprocess those.

Or even just eyeball them. Good idea --- I'll do it as soon as I get a
chance to catch my breath. Today's a bit busy :-(

Or if someone else wants to run with the idea, go for it.

regards, tom lane