Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > These are all shared catalogs. There are others, so you may still see
> > more. We got another report for pg_database
> > https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/A9D40BB7-CFD6-46AF-A0A1-249F04878A2A%40amazon.com
> > so I suppose there really is a bug. I don't know what's going on there.
>
> I think it's pretty obvious: autovacuum.c's rule for detecting whether
> some other worker is already processing table X is wrong when X is a
> shared table. I propose the attached patch.
Hmm, I have pretty much the same patch, except I added the flag to
struct autovac_table and have it populated by table_recheck_autovac.
Haven't tested this yet, which is why I hadn't posted it.
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