Re: [bug fix] Suppress "autovacuum: found orphan temp table" message - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: [bug fix] Suppress "autovacuum: found orphan temp table" message
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Msg-id 20140722151153.GG4190@alap3.anarazel.de
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In response to Re: [bug fix] Suppress "autovacuum: found orphan temp table" message  ("MauMau" <maumau307@gmail.com>)
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On 2014-07-23 00:13:26 +0900, MauMau wrote:
> Hello, Robert-san, Andres-san, Tom-san,
> 
> From: "Andres Freund" <andres@2ndquadrant.com>
> >a) There very well could be a backend reconnecting to that
> >  backendId. Then we potentially might try to remove the temp schema
> >  from two backends - I'm not sure that's always going to end up going
> >  well. There's already a race window, but it's pretty darn unlikely to
> >  hit it right now because the wraparound case pretty much implies that
> >  nothing has used that backendid slot for a while.
> >  I guess we could do something like:
> >
> >  LockDatabaseObject(tempschema);
> >  if (SearchSysCacheExists1)
> >     /* bailout */
> >  performDeletion(...);
> >
> >b) I think at the very least we also need to call RemovePgTempFiles()
> >  during crash restart.
> 
> Thank you for showing the direction.  I'll investigate the code.  But that
> will be tomorrow as it's already past midnight.
> 
> Could it be included in 9.2.9 if I could submit the patch tomorrow? (I'm not
> confident I can finish it...)  I'd really appreciate it if you could create
> the fix, if tomorrow will be late.

9.2.9 is already stamped, so no. But even without that, I don't think
that this is a change that should be rushed into the backbranches. The
risk/benefit ratio just isn't on the size of doing things hastily.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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