Tom Lane wrote:
> Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> > I think there's a window where the process waiting directly on
> > autovacuum could have already fired its deadlock check before it was
> > waiting directly on autovacuum.
>
> I think you don't understand what that code is doing. If there's an
> autovac anywhere in the dependency graph, it'll find it.
Thanks for making that explicit, I was trying to build a test case where
it would lock :-)
(If we had concurrent psql we could even have it in the regression tests
...)
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