Re: autovacuum multiworkers, patch 5

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Hi,


uhmmm patch?


>
> Here is the autovacuum patch I am currently working with.  This is
> basically the same as the previous patch; I have tweaked the database
> list management so that after a change in databases (say a new database
> is created or a database is dropped), the list is recomputed to account
> for the change, keeping the ordering of the previous list.
>
> Modulo two low probability failure scenarios, I feel this patch is ready
> to be applied; I will do so on Friday unless there are objections.
>
> The failure scenarios are detailed in the comment pasted below.  I
> intend to attack these problems next, but as the first one should be
> fairly low probability, I don't think it should bar the current patch
> from being applied.  (The second problem, which seems to me to be the
> most serious, should be easily fixable by checking launch times and

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