Exactly which version of 8.0.x? There was a bug fixed around 8.0.5 or
so "Prevent core dump in contrib version of autovacuum when a table has
been dropped. Per report from daveg (not his patch, though)."
The version of autovacuum in 8.1 is a fairly different beast than the
contrib version, and since it was integrated, I think all of Tom's
concerns were dealt with. I highly recommend the 8.1 version over the
contrib version for many reason.
Matt
Csaba Nagy wrote:
Hi all,
I have a postgres 8.0 installation, and I'm running autovacuum against
it. I have noticed that it processes temporary tables too, which is in
itself a bit curious, but the problem is that autovacuum might even
crash if a temporary table is suddenly gone while it tries to vacuum
it... that's what happened once here. I'm not sure what are the
necessary conditions to trigger this, it only happened once.
I searched in the release notes and googled a bit, but could not
(quickly) find what's the status of autovacuum vs. temporary tables in
8.1. I have seen that that was one of Tom's outstanding issues with
autovacuum to be included in the core, but was this resolved ?
Thanks,
Csaba.
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