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Old 04-15-2008, 11:34 PM
Tom Lane
 
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Default Re: Autovacuum and OldestXmin

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> writes:
> Simon Riggs wrote:
>> [Also there is a comment saying "this is a bug" in autovacuum.c
>> Are we thinking to go production with that phrase in the code?]


> Yeah, well, it's only a comment ;-) The problem is that a worker can
> decide that a table needs to be vacuumed, if another worker has finished
> vacuuming it in the last 500 ms. I proposed a mechanism to close the
> hole but it was too much of a hassle.


> Maybe we could remove the comment for the final release? :-)


What, you think we should try to hide our shortcomings? There are
hundreds of XXX and FIXME comments in the sources.

regards, tom lane

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