Re: autovacuum daemon stops doing work after about an hour

Christopher Browne wrote:

>The world rejoiced as mendola(at)bigfoot(dot)com (Gaetano Mendola) wrote:
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>>I think is a good Idea put a fflush after:
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>>fprintf(LOGOUTPUT, "[%s] %s\n", timebuffer, logentry);
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>I thought I had put fflush()es at all the interesting locations...
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I just looked through the code, I think there are fflush()es at all but
one interesting locations. The last log_entry call before sleeping
doesn't have an fflush call after it. I'll submit a patch that adds it.

>Apparently it was an error to not go to the effort of making sure it
>worked well on FreeBSD. (It was on my list, but I never got the Round
>Tuits...) There's an AMD-64 box coming in soon, targeted at FreeBSD,
>so that should change...
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Yeah, FreeBSD testing would have been nice, but I don't have access to
any FreeBSD boxes so.....