On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 16:07 +0100, Gregory Stark wrote:
> "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
>
> > Hmm, it looks like the race condition Heikki mentioned is the culprit.
> > We need a way to stop future analyzes from starting. Back to the
> > drawing board ...
>
> A crazy idea I just had -- what if you roll this into the deadlock check? So
> after waiting on the lock for 1s it wakes up, finds that the holder it's
> waiting on is an autovacuum process and cancels it instead of finding no
> deadlock.
+1
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