On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 08:48:30AM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > I've noticed that if for example the autovacuum process dies (such as
> > with a kill -9 when testing my new shared mem implementation), only
> > autovac and bgwriter are restarted. The stats collector is terminated,
> > but not restarted. (Same goes for a regular backend, and not just
> > autovac)
> >
> > Is there a reason for this, or is it a bug?
>
> I would say it is a bug, because the comments and code in ServerLoop()
> and reaper() say different.
Bah, sorry about the noise. It was the effect of
PGSTAT_RESTART_INTERVAL.
Do we want to add some logging when we don't restart it due to repeated
failures?
//Magnus