Re: Stats processor not restarting - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Stats processor not restarting
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Msg-id 20070320124830.GN24234@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Stats processor not restarting  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
Responses Re: Stats processor not restarting  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
Re: Stats processor not restarting  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Magnus Hagander wrote:
> I've noticed that if for example the autovacuum process dies (such as
> with a kill -9 when testing my new shared mem implementation), only
> autovac and bgwriter are restarted. The stats collector is terminated,
> but not restarted. (Same goes for a regular backend, and not just
> autovac)
> 
> Is there a reason for this, or is it a bug?

I would say it is a bug, because the comments and code in ServerLoop()
and reaper() say different.

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