RE: Temporary tables prevent autovacuum, leading to XID wraparound - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tsunakawa, Takayuki
Subject RE: Temporary tables prevent autovacuum, leading to XID wraparound
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In response to Re: Temporary tables prevent autovacuum, leading to XID wraparound  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Temporary tables prevent autovacuum, leading to XID wraparound
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From: Robert Haas [mailto:robertmhaas@gmail.com]
> Temporary tables contain XIDs, so they need to be vacuumed for XID
> wraparound.  Otherwise, queries against those tables by the session
> that created them could yield wrong answers.  However, autovacuum
> can't perform that vacuuming; it would have to be done by the session.
> I think we should consider having backends try to remove their
> temporary schema on startup; then, if a temp table in a backend is old
> enough that it's due for vacuum for wraparound, have autovacuum kill
> the connection.  The former is necessary to prevent sessions from
> being killed on account of temp tables they "inherited" from a backend
> that didn't exit cleanly.

The attached patch does the former.  The small change in autovacuum.c is mainly for autovac launcher and background
workerswhich don't connect to a database.  I'll add this to the next CF.  I'd like this to be back-patched.
 

I didn't do the latter, because killing the connection seemed a bit overkill.  If we're going to do it, then we should
alsokill the connection which is preventing vacuum regardless of whether it has temporary tables in its session.
 

Regards
Takayuki Tsunakawa




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