Re: First steps with 8.3 and autovacuum launcher

Simon Riggs escribió:

> Seems like we don't need to mess with the deadlock checker itself.
>
> We can rely on the process at the head of the lock wait queue to sort
> this out for us. So all we need do is look at the isAutovacuum flag on
> the process that is holding the lock we're waiting on. If it isn't an
> autoANALYZE we can carry on with the main deadlock check. We just need a
> new kind of deadlock state to handle this, then let ProcSleep send
> SIGINT to the autoANALYZE and then go back to sleep, waiting to be
> reawoken when the auotANALYZE aborts.

Ok, I think this makes sense.

I can offer the following patch -- it makes it possible to determine
whether an autovacuum process is doing analyze or not, by comparing the
PGPROC of the running WorkerInfo list (the list has at most
max_autovacuum_workers entries, so this is better than trolling
ProcGlobal).

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