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

From Magnus Hagander
Subject Re: Stats processor not restarting
Date
Msg-id 20070320145033.GE24280@svr2.hagander.net
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In response to Re: Stats processor not restarting  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
Responses Re: Stats processor not restarting  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 08:48:30AM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> 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.

Bah, sorry about the noise. It was the effect of
PGSTAT_RESTART_INTERVAL.

Do we want to add some logging when we don't restart it due to repeated
failures?

//Magnus


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