On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 9:45 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 12:15 AM, Jim Nasby <Jim.Nasby@bluetreble.com> wrote:
>>> On 10/21/16 8:47 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>>> If we are willing to do that then we don't really have to solve the
>>>> problem on the backend side. One could expect that autovacuum would
>>>> clean things up within a few minutes after a backend failure.
>
>> I am really thinking that we should just do that and call it a day
>> then, but document the fact that if one wants to look at the content
>> of orphaned tables after a crash he had better turn autovacuum to off
>> for the time of the analysis.
>
> Yeah, agreed. This also points up the value of Robert's suggestion
> of a "really off" setting.
Okay, so I suggest something like the attached as HEAD-only change
because that's a behavior modification.
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Michael