Re: vacuum as flags in PGPROC - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: vacuum as flags in PGPROC
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Msg-id 5598.1193181216@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to vacuum as flags in PGPROC  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
Responses Re: vacuum as flags in PGPROC  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> In the spirit of incremental improvement, here is a patch that turns the
> couple of bools in PGPROC into a bitmask, and associated fallout.

Maybe declare the field as uint8 instead of char?  Otherwise, +1.

> This patch also contains a change to make a cancelled autovacuum
> continue with the schedule (indeed to continue with the schedule on any
> error), rather than aborting completely.

I think we'd considered that a bug to be fixed.  Are you intending this
for 8.3 or 8.4?  I don't have a problem with it for 8.3, but someone
else might ...

            regards, tom lane

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