Re: can't stop autovacuum by HUP'ing the server

From: "Dave Cramer" <pg(at)fastcrypt(dot)com>
To: "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: can't stop autovacuum by HUP'ing the server
Date: 2008-08-26 13:59:24
Message-ID: 491f66a50808260659h3b676ea3y7c5e513b3d0132ec@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>wrote:

> Dave Cramer wrote:
>
> > Ok, here are the logs from last night
> >
> > 2008-08-26 04:00:02 EDT [25407] LOG: received SIGHUP, reloading
> > configuration files
> > 2008-08-26 04:00:02 EDT [22649] LOG: autovacuum launcher shutting down
> > 2008-08-26 04:00:02 EDT [30438] LOG: autovacuum launcher started
> >
> >
> > you can see the SIGHUP, the launcher being shut down, and starting right
> > back up again ???
> >
> > is this expected behaviour ?
>
> Certainly not, and that's not what I see here either. I assume process
> 25407 is (was) the postmaster, yes?
>
> If you "show autovacuum", is it on?

Yes that was the postmaster, and I did check to see if autovacuum was on,
and it was not.

Dave

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