Re: vacuum as flags in PGPROC

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> In the spirit of incremental improvement, here is a patch that turns the
> couple of bools in PGPROC into a bitmask, and associated fallout.

Maybe declare the field as uint8 instead of char?  Otherwise, +1.

> This patch also contains a change to make a cancelled autovacuum
> continue with the schedule (indeed to continue with the schedule on any
> error), rather than aborting completely.

I think we'd considered that a bug to be fixed.  Are you intending this
for 8.3 or 8.4?  I don't have a problem with it for 8.3, but someone
else might ...

            regards, tom lane