Jonah H. Harris wrote:
> On 4/9/06, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> > Oh? Anything much above the level of bufmgr is going to be dependent on
> > relcache, syscache, etc, and those are all definitely database-specific.
> > You can't just retarget a backend to operate in another database, at
> > least not without major changes in that infrastructure.
>
> It's not that complicated and it may not prove to be the best method,
> but it's worth a try. When I get done playing with it, I'll send it
> to ya to check out.
Hmm, if it turns out to work, I'm interested. This is something that
definitely could be of some help to autovacuum. Please post to
pgsql-patches.
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