Re: canceling autovacuum task woes

Excerpts from Alvaro Herrera's message of mar jul 24 15:30:49 -0400 2012:
>
> > On Tuesday, July 24, 2012 07:48:27 PM Robert Haas wrote:
> > > I am running into a lot of customer situations where the customer
> > > reports that "canceling autovacuum task" shows up in the logs, and
> > > it's unclear whether this is happening often enough to matter, and
> > > even more unclear what's causing it.
> > >
> > > Me: So, do you know what table it's getting cancelled on?
> > > Customer: Nope.

> Hm, autovacuum is supposed to set an errcontext callback that would tell
> you the table name it's working on at the time of the cancel.  So if
> even that is missing, something strange is going on.

Yep, it says:

ERROR:  canceling autovacuum task
CONTEXT:  automatic vacuum of table "alvherre.public.foo"

So at least that part seems pilot error more than anything else.

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