Re: vacuum hint on elog - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: vacuum hint on elog
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Msg-id 20050122125633.GA31867@dcc.uchile.cl
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In response to vacuum hint on elog  (Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>)
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On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 11:28:52PM +1100, Neil Conway wrote:
> It occurred to me that if we elog(ERROR) during VACUUM, the vacuum
> activity hint will not be reset. This will result in all subsequent I/O
> by the current backend being treated by the bufmgr as though it resulted
> from VACUUM. While elog(ERROR) during VACUUM is not a common occurrence,
> I don't think it's wise to assume it is impossible.

Hmm ... I think you should rather use a PG_TRY/PG_CATCH block.  (Or
discover whether this is already done somewhere else ...)

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Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[@]dcc.uchile.cl>)
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